Police humiliated women at CM’s meet: Manohar

PNS|Visakhapatnam

The Jana Sena Party (JSP) has condemned the police action of insisting that women remove their ‘chunnies’ before entering the venue during the Chief Minister’s programme held in Narasapuram on Monday.

Talking to the media here on Tuesday, JSP Political Affairs Committee chairman Nadendla Manohar said that the women, who went to attend the Chief Minister’s meeting, were humiliated in public glare by insisting that they remove their ‘chunnies’ as they were black in colour.

“It is highly unfortunate that the security personnel insisted some women remove their ‘chunnies’ which they use to cover their chest when they went to the public meeting of the Chief Minister. The police acted in a horrible way by instructing the women to leave their ‘chunnies’ outside the venue. In fact, the women were forcibly brought to the CM’s public meeting and they were humiliated openly,” he lambasted.

“We demand that the Chief Minister tender an unconditional apology to the women,” Nadendla Manohar said, adding that the police behaved in such a manner at the behest of the Chief Minister and his officials. Earlier, the police did not allow even pens into the CM’s meeting. Now they insisted the women remove black ‘chunnies’, he alleged.

The people of the State knew well the background of the Chief Minister and also his previous history. The Chief Minister visited his own constituency Pulivendula after the area was covered with plastic sheets, he ridiculed adding that the JSP does need certificate from him.

Manohar highlighted the JSP had extended financial assistance to the families of tenant farmers who committed suicides. “The Chief Minister was elected by the people but he did not wish to see them during his visits. The places where the CM visits are covered with plastic sheets and barricades are erected to restrict the people from seeing him. All shops are also forcibly closed during the CM’s visit,” Manohar lashed out. The JSP senior leader pointed out that the Chief Minister should not criticise the opposition leaders during the government programmes. The CM did not have minimum common sense.

“The CM’s public meetings are organised with public money and the CM should not make political comments during the government programmes,” Manohar said.