Dec 16 gang-rape: AAP's student wing forms human chain

Scores of volunteers of Aam Aadmi Party's student wing today formed a human chain around the Mandi House circle in remembrance of the victim of the December 16 gang-rape.
Emphasising on the need for women's security in the capital, the volunteers lit candles and raised slogans.
"It has been two years but nothing has changed. The government is not the same any more, the power centre has shifted but the plight of women remains the same," Delhi State President of the Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti (CYSS) Sarita Singh said.
Citing the recent incident in which a finance professional was raped by a cab driver in Delhi, she said that it only reinforced that the system had failed the women of the country.

Attacking BJP and Congress, for the "false promises" made to improve security arrangements for women, she claimed that while crores were spent on VIP security, women's security was only allotted Rs 100 crore by the Centre.
"While the political class has made many promises, whether it is about installing street lights, we have also heard insensitive remarks made by Arun Jaitley that December 16 was a small incident," Singh said.

A row had erupted in August this year when Union Finance Minister said that "one small incident" of rape in Delhi, advertised world over, was enough to cost India millions of dollars in terms of global tourism.

He had later clarified his comments saying that he had not referred to any particular case and had no intention of trivialising any crime.
The CYSS volunteers included students from Delhi University, Jamia Milia Islamia and Jawaharlal Nehru University who said they have recently joined the political outfit after it launched a campaign called 'Vacation for Nation' to enlist student-volunteers in November.