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00:00No, no, I will stand here, you won't be able to see me, that's why.
00:13Namaskar to all of you.
00:16Before starting the press conference, I have two videos in front of you.
00:20The first video is of 17th September, it is of Narendra Modi ji.
00:24He was giving a speech in Odisha.
00:27He was talking about women empowerment. First listen to it.
00:30The progress of women, the increasing ability of women,
00:45this is going to be the main mantra of Odisha's development.
00:52And now I will play another video in front of you.
00:57And while playing it, I am sad, I am in pain.
01:01A daughter of this country, a daughter of Odisha, who wants to become independent,
01:07who runs her own small restaurant, she met with an accident.
01:12What was more terrifying than the accident was what happened to her in Odisha's police station.
01:19Before playing that video, let me remind you,
01:22this daughter is the fiancée of an officer of the Indian Army.
01:27She is the daughter of an officer of the Indian Army.
01:30And she herself is a lawyer.
01:32Do listen to how she has expressed her situation in a police station in Odisha.
01:48He kept requesting me not to do this, not to do this.
01:53Then he was dragging me from the corridors of the police station.
01:58And at that time, the fight I was able to give him,
02:02where I was trying to hit him with the anchors of his hand,
02:08a lady constable tried to hold my neck and press it,
02:13so I cut her hand.
02:16After that, he tied my hands with my jacket
02:21and tied my feet with a lady constable's scarf and put me in the room.
02:28After a while, a male officer came and started kicking me on my chest.
02:38And at around 6 o'clock, he came to the police station.
02:45And he lowered my pants.
02:50He lowered his pants and took out his gun and told me,
02:54how many times will you want to shoot, or will you keep quiet?
02:58Because I was screaming a lot for help.
03:00I was screaming a lot for help.
03:07Sir, please, please, please.
03:37Some boys talk to him about Eve Teasing,
03:40taking the complaint of road rage,
03:43he and his fiancee, who is an officer in the Indian Army,
03:47they reach the police station.
03:50That woman is not only beaten there,
03:54but the pain she had,
03:57and the tragedy she narrated about the police station,
04:02I bow my head in shame and repeat it for your information.
04:07Because this country should hear,
04:09what is happening with the daughters of this country in the police station.
04:15What they have told in detail.
04:17They said that they were tied hands and feet in the police station.
04:22A female constable did this.
04:25And after that, a male constable comes.
04:31And he comes and takes off their undergarments.
04:36His chest kicks on their breasts.
04:39And not only this,
04:40by showing his private parts,
04:43I can't say the words he said here.
04:46This is happening in Odisha.
04:49In that Odisha, where today,
04:51100 days of the BJP government have been completed.
04:54On 17th, Narendra Modi goes to Odisha,
04:57and talks about women empowerment and women security.
05:01And in just a few hours,
05:03it is revealed,
05:05that this daughter of Odisha,
05:07was raped in the police station.
05:10Not only on the streets,
05:12but also in the BJP government.
05:16And she was not an ordinary woman.
05:18She is a lawyer.
05:20She is the fiancee of an officer of the Indian Army.
05:23The officer of the Indian Army,
05:25who is the major of the Sikh Regiment.
05:28I am not saying his name here.
05:31With the fiancee of a major of the Sikh Regiment,
05:34the country is paying its debt in this way.
05:40These are the Indian Army officers,
05:42who protect the borders of this country,
05:44in the scorching heat of the desert,
05:46and in the chilling cold of Siachen.
05:51And a grateful nation,
05:54is rewarding them in this way.
05:58That girl kept shouting,
06:00help me, help me.
06:03And even after that,
06:05no one came forward to help her.
06:08And this is the reality,
06:10that the real rape of the girl,
06:12happened in a police station in Odisha,
06:15by the police officers of that government,
06:19who are celebrating their 100th day today.
06:22Why is it that,
06:24wherever the government of the Indian People's Party is formed,
06:28the government of the so-called Double Engine,
06:31becomes the protector and abettor there.
06:34Why is it that,
06:36in every state governed by the BJP,
06:38the matter of victim-shaming comes up?
06:41Earlier, questions were raised on the character of the victim.
06:44Now, the police are exploiting the victim,
06:47the police are committing atrocities inside the police station.
06:50Why is this happening in the Indian People's Party,
06:53in the governed states?
06:55And one thing is true,
06:57Narendra Modi,
06:58will run around,
07:00and propagate,
07:02but will not utter a single word on this.
07:04His female ministers will not utter a single word on this.
07:06Who are the female ministers of this country?
07:09If I ask ten of you,
07:11one person might be able to answer this.
07:13The female MPs will not speak on this.
07:17What is happening in this country?
07:20The criminals who should tremble at the sight of the police,
07:26when a woman goes to the police station to save herself,
07:31there she is asked for shelter, support and help.
07:35Along with that, the police are exploiting her.
07:42Then where is the security of this country?
07:45What kind of empowerment is this?
07:48Why is it not necessary to know this today?
07:50And is there no place left for half the population in this country?
07:58And one more thing is true,
08:00and I want to say this strongly,
08:03because both these issues are very close to my heart.
08:07In Manipur,
08:09two women,
08:11two daughters,
08:13one of them was the wife of a Kargil warrior.
08:18It hasn't been a week yet,
08:20the matter has just come to light from Madhya Pradesh.
08:23Two army officers,
08:25two army soldiers,
08:27and their women,
08:29with their friends and relatives,
08:32they had gone out somewhere,
08:34and there they were beaten up.
08:37This is the kind of gratitude
08:40that a person goes to the border thinking,
08:43either I will come back,
08:45or my body wrapped in a trident will come back,
08:47this is what we are paying for.
08:51And everyone will be quiet.
08:53There will be silence,
08:55there will be no anger,
08:57there will be no protest,
08:59nothing will be said.
09:01You raised your voice in Bengal,
09:03you did the right thing.
09:05We also protested in Bengal.
09:07Now raise your voice,
09:09ask, how could this have happened?
09:13Ask, as soon as the government was formed,
09:15how could such a crime happen
09:17with a daughter in a police station?
09:19You won't speak on Badlapur,
09:21you won't speak on Bihar,
09:23you won't speak on Uttarakhand,
09:25you won't speak on Uttar Pradesh.
09:27You only and only do bad things
09:29with dirty political women.
09:33Narendra Modi should join hands
09:35and apologize to the women of this country.
09:38It has not been 72 hours
09:40since you came from there,
09:42and such a terrible thing
09:44has happened in front of this country.
09:47We demand from this stage,
09:50that the safety of women
09:52should be prioritized.
09:54We demand from this stage,
09:56that Narendra Modi breaks his silence,
09:58and the Women's Development Union
10:00becomes the frontal of the BJP.
10:03He should realize this.
10:06This is a matter of the Human Rights Commission.
10:11This is a matter of human rights.
10:14We go to the police station
10:16to avoid criminals,
10:18because we will get help,
10:20we will get security.
10:22And today, half of the population
10:24of this country is being dragged
10:26into the police station.
10:29I will very briefly make a statement
10:31in English on this.
10:33As you saw, Mr. Modi was in Odisha.
10:36He spoke about women empowerment.
10:39Less than 72 hours later,
10:41we have a gruesome case
10:43that's come in from Odisha.
10:45A woman, a self-employed woman
10:47who runs a restaurant,
10:49is engaged to an Indian Army officer
10:51who works in the Sikh Regiment,
10:53was going back to her home,
10:55when some cat-calling and eve-teasing happened.
10:57She went to the nearest police station.
10:59Instead of helping her out,
11:01the police tied her hands
11:03and her feet.
11:07A male police officer came
11:09and disrobed her,
11:11took off her undergarments,
11:13kicked her on her breasts
11:15and flashed his own private parts before her.
11:17And what he said thereafter,
11:19I cannot say it in public domain.
11:23Is this how safe our women are?
11:25The Prime Minister is absolutely silent.
11:27The BJP rightfully
11:29protested in West Bengal.
11:31What about Odisha now? Are you going to keep quiet?
11:33You don't want to speak in Badlapur?
11:35You don't want to speak in UP, in Bihar?
11:37Any place that's controlled by the BJP?
11:41Are you going to keep quiet on this?
11:43The Prime Minister is too busy campaigning.
11:45He doesn't have the time.
11:47We don't know who India's Women and Child Development Minister is
11:49because she rarely speaks.
11:51She doesn't speak, in fact.
11:53She would rather be elected to Parliament
11:55than to open their mouths on women's security,
11:57safety and their empowerment.
11:59The Women's Commission in India
12:01is as good as the frontal of the BJP.
12:03But how is this tolerable?
12:05How will this be tolerated?
12:07Who can justify this?
12:09And this is happening not to someone
12:11who's not educated,
12:13who doesn't know her rights.
12:15She's a lawyer.
12:17She's engaged to an officer
12:19from the Indian Army of the Sikh Regiment.
12:21And not just that.
12:23This has happened
12:25to the wife of the Kargil
12:27warrior in Manipur.
12:29It happened to female
12:31companions of our army
12:33officers in Madhya Pradesh.
12:35What exactly is happening in this country?
12:37Where are women safe?
12:39If women are not going
12:41to be safe in police stations,
12:43because quite frankly in this case,
12:45the crime against that woman,
12:47the sexual exploitation against that woman
12:49happened inside the police station.
12:51And who's
12:53answerable for that?
12:55You're celebrating 100 days of government
12:57in Odisha today.
12:59Who's responsible for this?
13:01Who should be held accountable?
13:03This country will be silenced
13:05by a few police officers.
13:07If you have any questions
13:09on this issue, you're welcome.
13:19Our first
13:27and foremost action is
13:29acknowledgement of what happened
13:31to that woman inside the
13:33police station. At least
13:35acknowledge what happened to her.
13:37Accept that crime against
13:39women are going up
13:41unchecked, unabated.
13:43That's the reality.
13:45That's our first
13:47demand.
13:49Don't gloss over it. Don't pretend
13:51women in this country are safe because they're not.
13:53Women in this country
13:55are not safe. They are not safe
13:57if they are labourers in the field. They are not safe
13:59if they are doctors in the hospital. They are
14:01not safe if they are working in 9-5 jobs.
14:03They are not safe.
14:05So first the BJP
14:07has to accept it. Acknowledge
14:09it.
14:11First of all,
14:13you have to acknowledge
14:15that women
14:17are not safe in this country.
14:19Whether it's a
14:21labourer,
14:23a farmer,
14:25a doctor, a woman working
14:27in 9-5 jobs,
14:29or
14:31the daughter of Odisha
14:33who was attacked. Who is safe?
14:35Our first demand is
14:37that the PM should apologize to this country.
14:39He should break his silence.
14:41And whenever you give
14:43protection to such people,
14:45such incidents will happen.
14:47The reality is that
14:49their courage and their fear
14:51doesn't go away. Their courage
14:53increases because they know
14:55that no matter what they do,
14:57they will always get protection from the BJP.
14:59That protection was given to
15:01Kuldeep Singh Sengar,
15:03to the monsters of IIT-BHU,
15:05to Brij Bhushan, to Ram Dular Gond,
15:07to all those politicians,
15:09to the MLA of Karnataka, against whom
15:11an FIR was filed, who
15:13raped a woman for 2 years.
15:15All of them get protection from the BJP
15:17because Narendra Modi will ask for
15:19votes for Prajwal Ravindra, he will
15:21protest for Brij Bhushan and
15:23won't stand up for women.
15:25This is the reality.
15:33I have to say that
15:35in Sambal today, I read that news,
15:37it's absolutely shocking.
15:39A girl who is raped
15:41was going with her brother and mother.
15:43A man comes,
15:45who is accused,
15:47gets released from jail,
15:49kills him with a bullet.
15:51You were giving an example of this law and order.
15:53You want to use this law and order
15:55as a model of Uttar Pradesh.
15:57This is the reality.
15:59Where are the daughters safe?
16:01Where are the daughters of this country safe?
16:03First, that girl was raped.
16:05The accused was punished.
16:07As soon as he was released from jail,
16:09he killed that girl.
16:11Day and night.
16:13What was Yogi's police doing?
16:15What will the people of BJP say?
16:17This jungle Raj,
16:19BJP's jungle Raj, from Uttar Pradesh
16:21to Odisha, is clearly visible.
16:23BJP doesn't want to see it,
16:25it's their choice, but
16:27the payment for it, the price for it,
16:29is being paid by the half population of this country,
16:31whose daughters are paying for it.
16:33Madam, last month, the Prime Minister
16:35went to Jalgaon, Maharashtra,
16:37where he said that women
16:39used to go to the police station
16:41for crimes against them.
16:43We have made strict laws.
16:45If women go to the police station,
16:47where will they go?
16:49I don't know where women will go.
16:51As a woman, I am standing in front of you
16:53helplessly and saying this.
16:55I don't know where women will go
16:57if there is a crime against women.
16:59I don't know where women will go
17:01if there is a crime against women.
17:03I don't know where women will go
17:05if there is a crime against women.
17:07I don't know where women will go
17:09if there is a crime against women.
17:11I don't know where women will go
17:13if there is a crime against women.
17:15I don't know where women will go
17:17if there is a crime against women.
17:19I don't know where women will go
17:21if there is a crime against women.
17:23I don't know where women will go
17:25if there is a crime against women.
17:27I don't know where women will go
17:29if there is a crime against women.
17:31I don't know where women will go
17:33if there is a crime against women.
17:35I don't know where women will go
17:37if there is a crime against women.
17:39I don't know where women will go
17:41if there is a crime against women.
17:43I don't know where women will go
17:45if there is a crime against women.
17:47I don't know where women will go
17:49if there is a crime against women.
17:51I don't know where women will go
17:53if there is a crime against women.
17:55I don't know where women will go
17:57if there is a crime against women.
17:59I don't know where women will go
18:01if there is a crime against women.
18:03I don't know where women will go
18:05if there is a crime against women.
18:07I don't know where women will go
18:09if there is a crime against women.
18:11I don't know where women will go
18:13if there is a crime against women.
18:15I don't know where women will go
18:17if there is a crime against women.
18:19I don't know where women will go
18:21if there is a crime against women.
18:23I don't know where women will go
18:25if there is a crime against women.
18:27I don't know where women will go
18:29if there is a crime against women.
18:31I don't know where women will go
18:33if there is a crime against women.
18:35I don't know where women will go
18:37if there is a crime against women.
18:39I don't know where women will go
18:41if there is a crime against women.
18:43I don't know where women will go
18:45if there is a crime against women.
18:47I don't know where women will go
18:49if there is a crime against women.
18:51I don't know where women will go
18:53if there is a crime against women.
18:55I don't know where women will go
18:57if there is a crime against women.
18:59I don't know where women will go
19:01if there is a crime against women.
19:03I don't know where women will go
19:05if there is a crime against women.
19:07I don't know where women will go
19:09if there is a crime against women.
19:11I don't know where women will go
19:13if there is a crime against women.
19:15I don't know where women will go
19:17if there is a crime against women.
19:19The women's committee is not for women.
19:21The women's committee is not for women.
19:23The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:25The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:27The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:29The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:31The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:33The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:35The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:37The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:39The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:41The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:43The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:45The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:47The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:49The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:51The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:53The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:55The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:57The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
19:59The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:01The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:03The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:05The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:07The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:09The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:11The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:13The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:15The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:17The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:19The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:21The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:23The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:25The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:27The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:29The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:31The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:33The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:35The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:37The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:39The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.
20:41The women's committee is the BJP's frontal.