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Haryana State Commission for Women chairperson Renu Bhatia resigned precocious connected Wednesday evening successful the aftermath of protests by nursing officers crossed the State during the time against her alleged derogatory remarks against the nursing unit astatine the Civil Hospital successful Kurukshetra.
In a missive to the Chief Minister, Ms. Bhatia, without assigning immoderate reasons for her resignation, said she had served arsenic the commission’s chairperson for implicit 4 years with honesty and dedication and would proceed to combat for the rights and the dignity of the women.
Ms. Bhatia had made the alleged remarks during her authoritative inspection astatine the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Civil Hospital successful Kurukshetra connected June 7, wherever she was reviewing the lawsuit of an alleged rape of a 15-year-old insignificant miss by a doctor. She had reprimanded the infirmary medication and nursing unit for information lapses that near the insignificant unattended.
Seeking her resignation, the Nursing Officers Welfare Association Haryana had threatened to clasp a 2nd two-hour pen-down onslaught with implicit suspension of services connected June 10 and spell connected a full-scale onslaught connected June 11, halting adjacent exigency services Statewide, if their demands were not met.
Ms. Bhatia’s tenure, however, was marked by respective controversies including the registration of the lawsuit against Ashoka University prof Ali Khan Mahmudabad implicit his societal media posts connected “Operation Sindoor”. It had sparked aggravated nationalist scrutiny and world outcry erstwhile she filed a constabulary ailment against the prof astatine Sonipat successful Haryana starring to his arrest. Ms. Bhatia had claimed that his posts had insulted the modesty of women successful the equipped forces and threatened nationalist integrity.
Recently, she had rejected a nationalist apology issued by Bollywood rapper Badshah implicit objectionable lyrics successful his opus “Tettiri”, summoning him and vowing to ace down connected anyone making violative content.
