All India Democratic Women’s Association demanded that police should register cases against the Congress leaders who made sexist and abusive comments about the LDF women MLAs, relating to their behavior in the incidents in the Kerala Assembly on the budget day. Government has not taken any action based on the complaints given by the women MLAs even after one week. This has emboldened Congress leaders to make anti-women and abusive statements against the women MLAs. KPCC member and Kozhikode DCC president K.C. Abu made sexual comments about Bijimol MLA about her behavior in the Assembly. M.A.Wahid MLA who is an accused in the atrocities against women MLAs in the Assembly, openly made sexually explicit remarks about Bijimol in a public meeting on Friday. The words and gestures used by both of them are derogatory and attacking women’s dignity. The forced retraction of words by one of them (K.C.Abu) after KPCC President instructed him to give an apology will not do any good. Congress party should take disciplinary action against these persons.
Kerala Assembly Speaker and the Chief Minister have been trying to protect the Congress MLAs and other leaders, without taking any action on the basis of the complaints given by the left MLAs.
On the top of it, Finance Minister K.M.Mani also abused women MLAs in his speech in a public meeting on Saturday, saying he feared the Marxist MLAs and could not confront them in the Assembly, lest he were charged with sexual harassment.
All India Democratic Women’s Association demanded that Kerala State Women’s Commission should take action in the incident involving harassment of women MLAs in the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
The left women’s organizations will hold a women’s march to the Kerala Assembly on Monday, 23rd March demanding action against the culprits.