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Minister raps TD-CPI tie-up

Staff Reporter

Infanticide should be treated as
social responsibility
Male chauvinism coming in way of women quota bill

TIRUMALA: Union Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdary on Tuesday lashed out at both the Telugu Desam Party and the Communist Party of India for forging an electoral alliance and termed it as ‘sheer opportunism’.

Talking to media persons, Ms. Renuka Chowdary who arrived at Tirumala on Tuesday said that the electoral understanding reached between both the parties is against their own ideologies. ‘How can both the parties which were engaged in mutual cut-throat criticism till the other day strike an electoral understanding overnight,’ she wondered. Questioning the credentials of all the political parties for abruptly singing the Telangana stand, including the TDP, she said that the statehood issue would be resolved only when the people of the region wished it.

Avoiding a direct reply to the allegations of Sadhvi Pragnya Singh Thakur that the anti-terrorism squad of the Mahasrashtra police was torturing her, the Minister said that the Congress was basically against any kind of violence, particularly towards the women and said that the law will take its own course. The issue is related with the security of the nation in which the government cannot adopt any compromising stand.

‘Baseless allegations’

She brushed aside the speculations that the senior leaders in the Congress party were being subjected to negligence and said that such baseless allegations will further keep the party leaders united.

When asked about the steps being taken by the government for containing the infanticide/foeticide in the country, she said that the menace can be controlled only when it is treated as a social responsibility. She said male chauvinism was coming in the way of implementation of the Women Reservation Bill. Later the Minister offered prayers at Tirumala temple.

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