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Mumbai Congress president and MP Varsha Gaikwad has written to Maharashtra Governor Jishnu Dev Varma seeking urgent involution implicit alleged emergence successful crimes against women and girls successful the State and contiguous enactment of the Shakti Bill.
In the missive dated May 5, Ms. Gaikwad besides urged the Governor to nonstop the State authorities to instrumentality strict enactment to curb atrocities against women.
Awaiting assent
The Shakti Criminal Laws (Maharashtra Amendment) Bill, 2020, modelled connected the Disha Act of Andhra Pradesh and different akin laws, was passed by some Houses of the State Legislature successful 2021 during the tenure of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, the Congress person said. The Bill is awaiting the President’s assent.
Her petition comes amid monolithic protests implicit the alleged rape and execution of a four-year-old miss astatine Nasrapur colony successful Pune district. “Neither are girls harmless successful schools nor are women harmless successful their ain homes,” the Mumbai North Central MP stated successful the letter.
Ms. Gaikwad besides criticised the State authorities for not having a full-time Home Minister, pointing retired that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is holding aggregate cardinal portfolios, including Home.
“The lack of a dedicated, full-time Home Minister has placed an unbearable load connected the instrumentality and bid machinery,” she said.
