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| PDP lashes out at Omar for 'make-up kit' remark | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Nov 30: Describing the make-up-kit remark of the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah as an insult to the people of the state, the Peoples Democratic Party today said it was particularly denigrating to the womenfolk.
In a statement the party chief spokesman Naeem Akhtar said it was unfortunate that the head of the state government had lost his sense of propriety as a result of the panic that has struck him in his pursuit to win a few council seats for the ruling coalition.
The PDP spokesman said women had defied considerable social barriers in taking a plunge into electoral process and are occupying a seriously contested democratic space. The chief minister through his insensitive remarks has however created a hugely negative impression about them, he said.
He said Omar's statement does not go well with his claim to have a degree from abroad or having any modern day schooling. The chief minister's remark at its meanest level is not only sexist but also gravely anti-woman.
The PDP chief spokesman said Omar's 'make-up kit' remark will make woman vulnerable at their homes, where they will have to face questions and jibes after the chief minister's irresponsible statement in a constituency which the Abdullah clan ruled for centuries. He said in fact the state government has siphoned off crores of rupees it received as contingency grants under the MNREGA that could have been paid as remuneration. The spokesman said the Chief Minister's threat to resign in case the charges of corruption against him were proven smacks of old trick he resorts to whenever cornered. "We want to remind him that all institutions of probity in the state like State Accountability Commission and RTI Act have been defanged by the present dispensation. The resignation threat sounds like a joke because the chief minister failed to do so when Haji Yousuf episode took place or in the wake of more than 100 killings of the youth in 2010," he said. |
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