'Women have equal rights in our country': Rahul slams PM Modi over Taliban presser

NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi connected Saturday led a question of absorption outrage aft women journalists were barred from a Taliban property league successful New Delhi. Taking nonstop purpose astatine Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress MP addressed PM Modi and said, "you are telling each pistillate successful India that you are excessively anemic to basal up for them.

”The remark came arsenic respective absorption leaders condemned the authorities for allowing specified an event, calling it a shameful affront to women’s rights and antiauthoritarian values.

Leader of absorption successful Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, voiced his disappointment implicit the incidental and criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, penning connected X, "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."He added, "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."

Lok Sabha subordinate Priyanka Gandhi besides addressed the issue, asking the premier curate to clarify the government’s position. She wrote connected X, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi 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."

Priyanka added, "If your designation of women’s rights isn’t conscionable convenient posturing from 1 predetermination to the other, past however has this insult to immoderate of India’s astir competent women been allowed successful our country, a state whose women are its backbone and its pride."Former location curate P Chidambaram expressed daze implicit the exclusion, writing, "I americium shocked that women journalists were excluded from the property league addressed by Mr Amir Khan Muttaqi of Afghanistan.

In my idiosyncratic view, the men journalists should person walked retired erstwhile they recovered that their women colleagues were excluded (or not invited)."

TMC MP Mahua Moitra besides targeted the Modi-led government, saying, "The authorities has dishonoured each azygous Indian pistillate by allowing Taliban curate to exclude women journalists from presser. Shameful clump of spineless hypocrites."

She added successful different station connected X, "How situation our authorities let Taliban overseas curate Amir Muttaqi to exclude women journalists & clasp a ‘male-only’ quality league connected Indian ungraded with afloat protocol? How situation EAM Jaishankar hold to this? & wherefore did our emasculated spineless antheral journos stay successful room?"

The property league was held astatine the Afghanistan embassy hours aft Taliban FM talks with outer affairs curate S Jaishankar, wherever women journalists were barred from entry.

The forum was lone opened to a fewer antheral journalists, reflecting the Taliban’s ongoing grounds of sex discrimination.Sources accidental the determination connected writer invitations was made by Taliban officials accompanying Muttaqi. The Taliban authorities successful Kabul has faced sustained planetary condemnation, including from the United Nations, for its restrictions connected women’s rights, education, and information successful nationalist life.Amid backlash, the ministry of outer affairs clarified to ANI that India had "no involvement" successful the property enactment held by Muttaqi.When asked astir the information of women successful Afghanistan, Muttaqi sidestepped the question, saying, "Every state has its ain customs, laws and principles, and determination should beryllium respect for them." He claimed Afghanistan’s concern had improved since the Taliban takeover successful August 2021, contrasting existent conditions with erstwhile years. "Some 200 to 400 radical died successful Afghanistan each time earlier Taliban started ruling the country," helium said.