A day after protests spilled on to the streets following a curt comment by MC Josephine, the chairperson of the Kerala Ladies’s Fee on Friday determined to stop from her publish.
She is a senior CPI-M central committee member.
The choice that she is going to put in her papers got here at a celebration assembly during which she additionally took half on the state CPI-M state headquarters on Friday.
In a TV channel organised phone-in programme, Josephine, responding to a girl who had referred to as to complain concerning the harassment that she has been going through at her husband’s dwelling, however added that she had not given a police grievance, stated: “In case you have not executed (that), then you definitely proceed to endure.”
Within the one to at least one discuss between Josephine and the hapless lady, Josephine behaved in a “very impolite and curt method, the place she was seen expressing her displeasure all by the discuss” and on the finish, the caller disconnected.
All the opposition, each the Congress and the BJP, criticised Josephine and even took to the streets demanding her removing.
The ladies activists from the Congress staged a protest outdoors the CPI-M headquarters the place the assembly was scheduled however had been taken into custody by the police.
The ladies wing of the BJP too staged their protests earlier than the Fee workplace and the CPI-M workplace.
Discovering no help for her within the celebration and the rising protests, Josephine was requested to place in her papers.
Her five-year time period was to finish subsequent 12 months.
For the previous few days, the state has witnessed a spate of suicides by younger ladies upset by the grooms’ demand for extra dowry. Within the midst of all these instances, got here Jospehine’s assertion, which didn’t discover favour with the folks.
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