Lekhi's comments show callous mindset of govt: women activists

Women activists today slammed BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi for her "insensitive" comments on the growing incidents of violence against women in India.

Lekhi had rejected as "fake" the findings of a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of about 550 experts, which found India the world's most dangerous country for women. She had claimed that "far worse" cases were happening abroad and that New York, not New Delhi, was the world's "rape capital".

Woman activist and CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat said Lekhi's comments show the "callous mindset" of the BJP.

"As a woman, Meenakshi Lekhi should show little more sensitivity to the very serious insecure environment which most women in India face day in and day out. She may or may not agree with the survey but she cannot question the figures of her own government which shows huge increase in last three years of rape of minor children and women," Karat told PTI.

"And instead of answering this, she is blaming media."