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Opposition parties connected Saturday criticised the Narendra Modi authorities implicit the lack of women journalists from a property league addressed by visiting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, with Congress wide caput Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asking the Prime Minister to clarify his presumption connected the matter.
“Mr. Modi, erstwhile you let the exclusion of women journalists from a nationalist forum, you are telling each pistillate successful India that you are excessively anemic to basal up for them. In our country, women person the close to adjacent information successful each space. Your soundlessness successful the look of specified favoritism exposes the emptiness of your slogans connected Nari Shakti,” Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said successful a station connected societal media level X.
Mr. Gandhi’s station was successful effect to Ms. Vadra’s earlier message, successful which she asked whether the Prime Minister’s designation of women’s rights was “just convenient posturing from 1 predetermination to another,” and questioned however specified an “insult to immoderate of India’s astir competent women” could person been permitted.
“Prime Minister @narendramodi ji, delight clarify your presumption connected the removal of pistillate journalists from the property league of the typical of the Taliban connected his sojourn to India,” she said connected X.
The property conference, addressed by the Afghanistan Foreign Minister connected Friday, was restricted to a constricted radical of antheral journalists, with women reporters conspicuously absent.
Mr. Muttaqi held the enactment astatine the Afghan Embassy successful New Delhi, hours aft holding wide-ranging talks with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar.
While determination has been nary authoritative remark from the Government of India, it is learnt that the determination connected media invitations was taken by Taliban officials accompanying the visiting minister. Sources said the Indian broadside had suggested to the Afghan delegation that women journalists beryllium included among the invitees.
“(Tali)ban connected pistillate journalists successful India. Shocking and unacceptable that the Govt of India agreed to it - and that excessively successful New Delhi connected the eve of the International Day of the Girl Child,” Congress connection main Jairam Ramesh said successful a station connected X.
Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, expressing his idiosyncratic view, said, “The men journalists should person walked retired erstwhile they recovered that their women colleagues were excluded (or not invited).”
Communist Party of India wide caput D. Raja, tagging External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar successful his X post, asked, “Was it conscionable Taliban misogyny oregon a tacit endorsement of it connected Indian soil? The Republic of India is built connected equality. We are the federation which gave women voting rights from time one, erstwhile galore Western countries lagged behind. To let specified exclusion present is blasphemy to our law spirit.”
Mr. Raja urged the Ministry of External Affairs to explicate however it agreed to “permit this discriminatory spectacle”. “This is not diplomatic nuance. This is nourishment to patriarchal ideology that wants to erase fractional the satellite from nationalist life. We indispensable telephone it out, without hesitation,” helium added.
