Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smriti Irani spoke out against the Kerala Government, saying that women are being killed in their own workplaces despite even having police’s presence there for them. This was in reference to the recent brutal murder of Dr. Vandana Das on May 10 at Kottarakara Government Hospital. Addressing it in the Minister’s inaugural speech, she said that such an incident is shocking as police are the ones who should protect the people, and yet here, they failed to do so.
The Minister was inaugurating the Women Labour Conference -Drushti 2023 in connection with Labour 20 of G20, at Thiruvananthapuram on May 22, organised by the Kerala unit of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS).
Ministers Smriti Irani and V. Muraleedharan paid a visit to the parents of Dr. Vandana Das as well and assured them of all possible assistance from the central government in ensuring justice for the departed.
Minister Smriti Irani also added that the state government was given instructions to launch more child welfare centres and was informed of filling up 13% of the vacancies for supervisory positions in various Anganvadis, highlighting how Prime Minister Mathruvandana Yojana is the best technology for identifying the needy and directly helping them out.
The minister said that the centre has directed the Kerala government to establish additional child welfare centres in agricultural and construction sectors where women work in large number. She expressed how the Modi regime extends any kind of financial grant to the state government to ensure the safety and welfare of women.
The minister expressed her regret over the Kerala government’s lack of interest in the digitization of Anganvadis. She added that the LDF government is only keen on fulfilling their party’s aim and not the welfare of the people.
The Union Minister also urged the people of Kerala to defeat the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as the MP of Wayanad, saying that if he remains there the constituency will share the same fate of Amethi. She said that “It was me who sent him to Wayanad from Uttar Pradesh. What was the reason behind sending him to Wayanad? When he was an MP there, 80 per cent of the people didn’t have electricity, the district collector didn’t have an office, there was no fire station. When the Wayanad MP was in Amethi, there was no medical college. There was no Sainik School or Kendriya Vidyalaya. When he left all this was possible.”
Rahul Gandhi was previously the MP of Amethi until 2019, when he lost to Smriti Irani. The same year, he contested from the Wayanad constituency as well, where he won and became the MP. In March of 2023, he was disqualified as an MP in connection with a defamation case following his conviction and two-year jail sentence in it.
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