Kalpetta: The Modi regime is misusing the National Women’s Commission for tarnishing the image of the state by intervening in issues that have already been addressed, according to the State Women’s Commission.
It has been reported that the national women’s panel has registered a case on the plight of unwed mothers of Thirunelli panchayat in Wayanad district and that it would be visiting the district soon. SWC chairperson K.C. Rosakkutti told DC that such moves were politically motivated. “The NWC has been sidelining the state panel and also politicising its activities,” she added.
“The problems faced by unwed tribal mothers in Thirunelli have already been addressed by successive state governments and various projects are already on,” she said and added that there were many instances of the NWC members visiting such places without informing the state body. “I learnt about the Wayanad visit of NWC member Rekha Sharma just before the Parliament election, when I was addressing a workshop organized by the NWC in Delhi. I had raised the issue in an open forum headed by NWC chairperson Najma Heptullah,” she noted. In the Jisha murder case also, the panel did the same thing. They visited the spot escorted by some BJP-VHP leaders without our knowledge. Even while registering the statement of witnesses, we were kept away. “They want to produce some political results by misusing such tools of democracy,” she added.
“In fact, they want to tarnish the image of the state which is far ahead of many north Indian states in women’s rights,” she noted.
It may be recalled that the issue of unwed mothers in Wayanad has been in the limelight for the last many decades.
