Women lack security in the state: Vijayamma

Tenali, April 13, 2013: YSR Congress Party honourary president Smt. Y.S. Vijayamma lamented the ever increasing attacks on women and lack of proper security to them ever after 65 years of independence. 

Speaking to reporters on Friday after consoling the family members of B. Kantha Suneela who was pushed under a lorry by a group of drunken youths who attempted to molest her daughter Mounika here, Smt. Vijayamma said that irrespective of their age, women are being subjected to atrocities in the absence of a strong administration to enforce the law.

It may be recalled that Suneela was pushed under a lorry when she tried to protect her daughter from a gang of drunken youths on April 8. The High Court is presently monitoring the investigation of the case.

 “I am deeply pained at the incident. We are facing these problems as there is a total failure of the law and order situation in the absence of strong leaders who can enforce law,” she said.

The atrocities on women are increasing as the Government has been giving innumerable licenses to wine shops and bars and restaurants everywhere, especially on the main roads. Smt. Vijayamma said she would raise the issue in the assembly to ensure justice to the family.

Asking the CM and the Home Minister to take steps to prevent recurrence of such incidents, Smt. Vijayamma said it was sorrowful to see the distressed condition of the family. Quoting Mahatma Gandhi’s words that India would attain real freedom only when women could walk freely without fear during the nights, she said we have not yet attained such freedom.

“Mounika wants the culprits to be punished severely,” Smt. Vijayamma said, adding, that YSRCP would stand by the family.