DELHI GANG RAPE: Protest meet held in Ludhiana city

Ludhiana, December 28, 2012: The Inter-faith and NGOs held protest meet in Sarabha Nagar Leisure Valley here today against the Delhi rang rape of a para-medical student in bus.

While censuring Delhi administration for its inaction, the gathering strongly stressed the need to inculcate moral values in the youth and start training the girls in self-defence at educational institutions and in religious places.

Jatinder Singh Sandhu, president of Gurdwara Sarabha Nagar and Durga Mata Mandir president Subash Duggal and Gulam Hassan Kausar of Jama Masjid jointly and severally endorsed the view of educating and training the girls for judo karate etc for their self-defence so that they fight back the wolves.

Sandhu promised to start a project for women and children for this purpose in the Gurdwara Sahib.

International Human Rights Organisation (IHRO) chairperson DS Gill described the given plight of women in India in context with Delhi gang-rape episode. He explained how the situation is worst in Punjab and Haryana, besides Delhi, in this regard, adding the instances of Faridkot Shruti case, Amritsar ASI murder in lieu of defending his daughter, who was made to suffer at the hands of a Youth Akali leader, and Patiala girl suicide case due to police inaction in her gang-rape.

IHRO general secretary Mohinder Singh Grewal in his address gave brief history of women harassment and rapes by security forces, its cats to rundown the rights movements in Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and the North-Eastern states. He expressed dismay and anguish that despite punishing the guilty, the perpetrators there were awarded, and that government attitude encouraged the lumped elements and goonda’s in politics to indulge in such illegal, heinous crimes as rape.

Eminent agriculture economist and Chancellor, Central Research University, Bathinda, Dr Sardara Singh Johl, emphasised that the education should be based moral values, good teachers-taught relationship, with healthy parents help and support. He blamed the corruption, degeneration in politics and selfish approach of the public towards politicians for this menace of lawlessness and goonda culture in public life.

Prof Manjit Kaur Bhamber urged the need to educate the girls, get organised for the rights of women and ‘we need women’s NGOs in every, street, Mohalla, city and educational institutions.

Other speakers who expressed their views included Devinder Singh Mangat, Prof Ranjit Singh and Jasneet Kaur.