Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) working president and Baramati MP Supriya Sule on Friday criticised the Centre and the Shinde-Fadnavis Maharashtra government for their insensitivity towards women, while referring to the Delhi police’s crackdown on a protest by women wrestlers and the increasing crimes against women in Maharashtra.
Ms. Sule, who recently assumed her new party post, said that the way the Delhi police handled the protest by women wrestlers and rising incidence of crime against women in Maharashtra were proof of the ‘insensitivity’.
During her maiden visit to office after becoming the party’s national president, she met with the family members of an 18-year-old student who was raped and murdered in a government hostel in Mumbai, and blamed the State Home Department, which is handled by Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, for failing to ensure the safety and security of women.
