Nationwide Fee for Girls chairperson Rekha Sharma on Monday requested a United States journalist to take away his put up on social media platform X that was important of it.
Sharma stated that United States-based journalist David Josef Volodzko was vilifying the “complete nation” together with his posts.
Commenting on a put up on X a few 28-year-old Brazilian vlogger who was allegedly gangraped in Jharkhand’s Dumka on Friday whereas on a biking journey together with her companion, Volodzko described his observations of girls’s experiences in India.
The “degree of sexual aggression I witnessed whereas residing in India for a number of years was not like anyplace else I’ve ever been”, Volodzko had stated. “As soon as a complete stranger, a British lady, requested to sleep in my mattress and fake to be my girlfriend on a practice experience as a result of a person strolling by within the corridor had licked her foot and she or he felt unsafe,” he wrote on Saturday.
Describing one other incident, Volodzko stated, “I launched a feminine buddy to a younger Indian man and as a substitute of shaking her hand, he groped her breast, and when she grew to become indignant he grew to become extraordinarily hostile and I assumed I used to be going to need to struggle the man.”
Volodzko stated he had “by no means met a feminine traveller who had not been groped or assaulted or worse” whereas travelling in India, even when they have been within the nation for a couple of days. He additionally expressed his love for the nation, saying that India would at all times be one in all his favorite locations on this planet.
The journalist additionally stated that sexual crimes in opposition to girls are “an actual downside in Indian society that warrants extra consideration”.
Sharma had replied to this on Sunday, saying, “Did you ever report the incident to Police?”
“If not than you might be completely an irresponsible individual,” Sharma stated in her put up on Sunday. “Writing solely on social media and defaming entire nation isn’t sensible choice.”
To vilify a complete nation with a tweet isn’t solely in poor style but additionally unacceptable, as information speaks in any other case. As a lot as this incident must be condemned and perpetrators dropped at justice, let me share a couple of statistical indicators and request you to take away this tweet.… https://t.co/RGzyw6d74b
— Rekha Sharma (@sharmarekha) March 4, 2024
The change continued on Monday. “Sharma herself has confronted criticism for failure to answer complaints filed by girls’s rights teams over credible allegations of girls being publicly stripped bare, overwhelmed by mobs and raped in public,” Volodzko wrote in a put up on X, responding to Sharma’s feedback.
“My Indian mates don’t appear to have a lot respect, if any, for NCW and one cause for it is because it has a deplorable behavior of blaming girls when they’re attacked, raped and even murdered,” wrote the journalist. “NCW makes India much less secure for ladies when it does this stuff.”
Sustaining her earlier criticism of Volodzko’s remarks, Sharma on Monday stated that over six million vacationers arrive in India yearly, together with many single girls who vacation safely within the nation.
“India views sexual assault as a really critical crime, and so ought to nations that, till now, haven’t thought of date rape as a legal offense,” Sharma wrote, including that she is personally trying into the case of the gangrape in Dumka.