Cong attacks Kejri, Modi on condition of girl child

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Congress on Saturday demanded a probe into the abandonment of two sisters and attacked the Delhi government and the Union government for allegedly

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Congress on Saturday demanded a probe into the abandonment of two sisters and attacked the Delhi government and the Union government for allegedly failing to initiate girl child welfare schemes.

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“We demand a probe into the shocking incident of two sisters, aged three and seven years, who were found abandoned, malnourished and maggot infested. This highlights the pathetic condition of girl child in our society, and discrimination against them even by parents,” said Delhi Congress spokesperson, Sharmistha Mukherjee.

Mukherjee said if this was the fate of girl children under the Narendra Modi government at the Centre and the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi, what would be the fate of girls and women elsewhere in the country.

She accused the Delhi government for arbitrarily closing down the Gender Resource Centres (GRCs) in May 2016, a women’ s empowerment programme of the previous Congress government in Delhi.

She questioned the Delhi government’s budget for improving women’s security.