Then, you endure! Public, Oppn rip into MC Josephine for insensitive remarks

By Express News Service
KOZHIKODE/T’PURAM: Clamour  for the resignation of Kerala Women’s Commission Chairperson MC Josephine intensified on Thursday, after her insensitive remarks to a lady complainant throughout a tv phone-in programme courted controversy. Opposition Congress and the BJP, and CPI’s pupil wing AISF sought fast elimination of Josephine whereas CPM noticed a studied silence.Josephine, a central committee member of CPM, shouted ‘Then, you suffer’ at an aggrieved complainant, when she informed the chairperson that she had not approached the police with a home violence criticism, regardless of her husband and mother-in-law harassing her.

The clip of the dialog, throughout which Josephine is seen changing into stressed a number of occasions attributable to poor audio high quality, was shared by hundreds on social media platforms. “If you want to get back the dowry and compensation, hire a good lawyer and file a case in family court. If you want, a petition could be filed with women’s commission as well. But there’s no use as your husband is abroad,” Josephine informed the complainant with hardly any empathy.

“Did you get me?” she requested in excessive decibel whereas ending the dialog.On Thursday, Josephine made one other controversial remark about dowry. “If someone still wants to pay dowry, credit that to the account of woman,” she informed reporters in Kollam. Acting swiftly, Kollam District Congress Committee president Bindu Krishna lodged a criticism with the ladies’s fee itself, demanding motion towards the chairperson. 

Nat’l girls’s panel takes cognisance of Josephine’s feedback

State Congress president Okay Sudhakaran sought fast elimination of Josephine from the publish. “A person who has such cruel, contemptuous and ridiculous attitude towards a complainant shall not continue at the helm of women’s commission. All cases considered by Josephine should be reinvestigated,” he stated in an announcement.BJP president Okay Surendran stated the ladies within the state don’t want such a girls’s fee chairperson. RMPI chief and MLA Okay Okay Rema stated Josephine had humiliated the complainant and she or he had no proper to proceed in workplace.

The AISF state secretariat demanded sacking of Josephine.“She is a shame to society hence should be sacked outright. Those responsible for protecting the women folk are behaving like this which is no a less offence,” stated AISF state president P Kabeer.National Commission for Women Chairperson Rekha Sharma took cognisance of the feedback made by Josephine after BJP nationwide government member Sobha Surendran introduced that to her consideration.At first, Josephine denied allegations of humiliating the complainant. 

Speaking to reporters in Kollam after visiting the home of Vismaya, the sufferer of dowry torture, Josephine stated she had suggested the lady to strategy police with all sincerity as the ladies’s fee shouldn’t be outfitted to cope with all complaints concurrently.  However, by night, she issued an in depth assertion expressing remorse.

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“I came to know that it was a phone-in programme only after reaching the channel studio. The complainant’s voice was weak hence I could not hear her properly. I asked her why she didn’t approach the police, by taking the freedom of a mother. It was an expression of my indignation over girls not approaching police with their issues. On a second thought, I realised that my words were unwanted,” she stated in an announcement.

The CPM state secretariat, which meets right here on Friday, will focus on the controversy. It is learnt that the detailed denial issued by Josephine was type of an anticipatory bail forward of the assembly. Senior CPM leaders avoided making any remark.

Josephine’s remarks had turn into controversial prior to now too. While answering questions by reporters when the sexual harassment case towards ex-MLA P Okay Sasi was in information, Josephine stated her occasion had been functioning as a court docket in addition to police station. When there was a criticism towards LDF convener A Vijayaraghavan following his sexist remarks towards Ramya Haridas, MP, through the Lok Sabha election marketing campaign, Josephine downplayed it saying the criticism towards him was the very best punishment.The girls’s fee led by Josephine assumed workplace in May 2017 for a five-year tenure.

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