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Republic Day: Glorification Of Women And Their Social Status

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New Delhi, 2 February 2024

Salim Khan

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The  high- voltage Ram Mandir Pran Pratistha ceremony on 22th January  left little enthusiasm among the people for  Republic Day on 26 January.

In her national address, Madam President said that the scope of the welfare schemes started by the government to provide free ration to the weaker sections of the society during the pandemic (Corona) has increased. Taking this initiative further, the government has decided to provide free foodgrains to more than 81 crore people for the next five years. The President called it the unique and biggest public welfare scheme in history.

This time, women were well represented in the Republic Day parade and the President mentioned the approval of the historic bill related to women's reservation in the Parliament House, but Mahua Moitra was ill-treated in the same Parliament and she was expelled after unfair allegations were made against her. The President's statement: “With this law, our country will move forward on the principle of equality between men and women and it will prove to be a revolutionary means of empowering women” seems ridiculous. What is the equivalent of just a warning on the serious crime of BJP's Ramesh Bidhuri and strict punishment to Mahua Moitra? Not vacating the government houses in Delhi for years and strangulating a courageous member who raised her voice against the government, is it a worship of womanhood? Meanwhile, a sad incident that shows the pitiful condition of women in the country came to light in Uttar Pradesh, where the double-engine government takes pride in its bulldozers.

A woman judge from Uttar Pradesh wrote a letter to CJI DY Chandrachud demanding euthanasia. Acting on this, the Chief Justice ordered Supreme Court Secretary General Atul Madhukar Kurhekar to summon the state report from the Allahabad High Court administration and sought information about all the complaints. Along with this, he also asked about the status of action on the complaint presented before the Internal Complaint Committee. A woman judge posted within Banda district had claimed that during her posting, she was mentally and physically tortured by the District Judge and her close relatives, and the District Judge pressured her to meet him at night. The question is how unsafe will the common woman be in a society where a woman judge is subjected to such misbehaviour.

According to the woman judge, she had joined the judicial service after appearing in the judge's examination with great enthusiasm but she was made a victim of misbehaviour in the crowded court. In her letter, Madam addressed all the working women and asked them to learn to live with sexual exploitation. Can this be imagined in any civilized society? She writes with extreme regret that despite being a judge, she could not get justice for herself. If a woman becomes a victim of injustice even after holding a high position in order to provide justice to others through her hard work, then what can be expected from the laws made in the Parliament? Describing her condition, Judge Sahiba writes, “I have been made a victim of sexual abuse. I have been treated like garbage. I feel like an unpleasant insect, even though I had hoped to bring justice to others but all my dreams were shattered.”

This woman judge complained about this matter to the Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court and other concerned officials, but no one even once asked what happened? Is this not the height of insensitivity? In 2022, the Chief Justice and Administrative Judge of Allahabad High Court did not take any action on these complaints. In July 2023, he lodged a complaint with the Internal Complaints Committee of the High Court but that effort also remained futile. According to him, it took six months and a thousand e-mails to start the investigation and the proposed investigation is also just a sham. The complainant said “ The witnesses in the investigation were under the jurisdiction of the District Judge. How could the Committee expect witnesses to testify against their boss? This is beyond my understanding.”

The lady judge alleges that during the adjournment of the investigation, she had applied for transfer of the concerned District Judge, so that an impartial investigation of the facts could be possible, but her application was rejected. Now if she does not want to live then who is at fault? Just five kilos of foodgrains is not enough to survive in this world, but every person wants to live with dignity. If this is not guaranteed then everything is useless.

While celebrating the Constitution on the occasion of Republic Day, President Draupadi Murmu surprised everyone by mentioning the opening words of the Preamble, “We, the people of India”, because at present the national narrative has replaced ‘we’ with ‘I’. It is given that the President praised the successes of the Central Government in his presidential speech, for example, organizing the G-20 summit in Delhi as a unique achievement, although it itself came to be part of India under a fixed rule and then went away. But it is also true that after that India's relations not only with Canada but also with America deteriorated.

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