Chennai
Addressing his party’s women wing meeting here, Kamal hit out at those who seek to link the incidence of rape to women’s choice of clothes.
“Some chauvinists blame women for all the problems faced by them. (They attribute) rapes to the choice of clothing by women that corrupt the minds (of men)… even gods are scantily clad... some wear nothing... but these men do not get any thoughts (by seeing these gods). Then, why do they get ideas by seeing my sisters?” he said.
“Following the Pollachi sexual assault case, I went there.
Now it is 660 days since the assault but no one was punished yet,” he said, adding that if his party was voted to power, they would enact a stringent act against sexual violence on women and children.
Pointing out that women outnumber men in the voters in the state, he said that he wanted 50 per cent of the ministerial berths to be shared by women MLAs. He also wanted the government to build adequate toilet facilities for women.
Earlier, Kamal addressing his party’s lawyers wing, sought setting up of a digital court in Chennai to hear the cases pertaining to the Supreme Court. “Time of poor people being made to travel distance to appear for the cases in the Supreme Court have gone. An office of the SC should be set up at the Chennai to file and hear cases,” he said.
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