While expressing support for hostel curfews, Maneka Gandhi stereotypes security guards as "Bihari gentlemen with dandas" - Alt News
Pratik Sinha
7th March 2017 / 2:51 pm / Last updated: 7th March 2017
In a rather shocking response to a question in an interview with NDTV, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi claimed that early curfews in hostels are necessary to protect young boys and girls from their own ‘hormonal outbursts’.
Here’s the text of what she said:
Not only does the Minister recommend regressive measures to ‘protect’ women, she also thinks that ‘hormonal outbursts’ can happen only past 6 p.m. Earlier this year, in March 2016, Maneka Gandhi had also opposed marital rape being made an offence. In a written reply, she’d said:
Further in the interview with NDTV, when a student asked if the issue could be solved by improving security in universities, Maneka Gandhi said:
Apparently, Maneka Gandhi thinks that all security guards are ‘Bihari gentlemen with Dandas’. Such racist outlook of a Union Minister is disturbing.
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