In Varanasi, youth of various student organizations including NSUI organized ‘Meri Raatein, Meri Sadaken’ program at the main gate of BHU Gate Lanka. In which BHU girl students and students and people from civil society participated and protested against the increasing violence against women in the country.
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BHU Singhdwar took out a march.
Protested by taking out a march
The girl students participating in the march said – On this day, it has been 12 years since the gruesome Nirbhaya gangrape took place in the country’s capital Delhi. If we look at the statistics of these last 12 years, there has been an increase in cases like violence and rape against women. There is a long list of such incidents from Hathras, Unnao, Kathua, Bilkis Bano to IIT-BHU.
Slogans were raised by taking out a torch march till Ravidas Gate.
women should get security
Jagruti Rahi said – The country’s politics is becoming increasingly insensitive towards important issues like women’s safety and equal rights, employment, health, education. An attempt is being made to divide us between Hindus and Muslims by giving religious color to every issue and to create hatred in the society.
The girl students raised slogans of Azadi-Azadi.
He said that today in the program Meri Raatne, Meri Sadaken, the students and common citizens of Banaras united and declared that now we will not tolerate such incidents anymore. Public places have to be made safe for women on which they have equal rights.