‘Enough is enough’: Prez asks nation to wake up, end crimes against women
President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday said the August 9 rape and murder of a junior doctor in a Kolkata hospital has “dismayed and horrified” her, and asserted it is time for India to wake up to the “perversion” of crimes against women and counter the mindset that sees them as “less powerful, less capable, less intelligent”.
“Enough is enough. No civilised society can allow daughters and sisters to be subjected to such atrocities,” Murmu said, expressing anguish over crimes against women in an exclusive signed article for news agency Press Trust of India (PTI).
“In 12 years since Nirbhaya (the gangrape and murder of a Delhi woman in 2012), countless rapes have been forgotten… this ‘collective amnesia’ is obnoxious,” she said.
This was the President’s first public statement since the horrific incident at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital nearly twenty days ago.
Murmu said it is this objectification of women by a few that is behind the crimes against women,” which is “ingrained deeply”.
In her article, Murmu said the recent spate of crimes against women should force honest self-introspection to uncover the roots of the malaise. “I was dismayed and horrified when I came to hear of it,” she said, adding that it is more depressing that it is part of a series of crimes against women.