Acting
on the call of women's organisations to hold nationwide protests against the
outrageous comments made by TMC MP Tapas Pal, women activists raised their
voice outside the Parliament today, demanding his expulsion.
The
activists including AIDWA General Secretary Jagmati Sangwan, AIDWA Vice
President Sudha Sundararaman, Delhi AIDWA Vice-President Maimoona Mollah, Delhi
AIDWA Joint Secretary Kavita Sharma and several other activists of women's
organizations. They were arrested and detained at Parliament House Police
Station for the day.
They
condemned the injustice embedded in their arrest , when a law breaker like
Tapas Pal was being allowed to sit in the parliament.
A
delegation of MPs comprising of P.K. Sreemathi(Lok Sabha), T.N.Seema,
Rajya Sabha and Jharna Das Baidya (Rajya Sabha) also visited the detained
activists in the police station demanding that they be released at the
earliest.
