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Not the time for MNS to promote Bihari agenda

Updated on: 08 January,2013 08:14 AM IST  | 
MiD DAY Correspondent |

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray has blamed Bihari migrants for the gang rape of a girl in New Delhi

Not the time for MNS to promote Bihari agenda

Now is the time for leaders to reflect and use their clout to question attitudes towards women. To think and work on ways of improving security. Most of all, to press like the public is doing, for law reforms so that women, equal stakeholders in the system, get justice and rape laws are amended.


Instead, people are hearing statements that are the last word in ridiculousness from politicians. Now, Raj Thackeray is attempting to hijack this to further his divisive agenda. Humiliation of and assaults on women are happening across the country. They are not restricted to one state, one caste or language.

Instead of talking about what he and his party, the MNS could do to make women feel safer, he has dragged the Bihar angle into this tragic issue. The world’s eyes are on India and there are international voices talking about how this country treats its women. And all Raj Thackeray can do is sulk like a petulant child about how nobody is talking about Bihari rapists. Despicable, to say the least. u00a0

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