Women should dress ‘carefully’: NCW chief

She said the biggest challenge before the NCW today is changing the social mindset of discrimination against women.

“Westernisation has afflicted our cities the worst. There are no values left. In places like Delhi there is no culture of giving up seats for women. It is unfortunate that while the West is learning from our culture,we are giving ourselves up completely to western ways,” she said.

Earlier this year,Sharma had sparked a row when she said that the word “sexy” should not be taken in a negative context.

“Boys pass comments on girls terming them sexy,but sexy means beautiful and charming. We should not see it in negative sense,” she had said.

Sharma is going to Guwahati on Wednesday to present the recommendations of the NCW’s probe team.

While stating that Lamba’s action was “indefensible”,she added that the issue was played up too much.

“We are thankful to the media for highlighting the incident but at times the asides get more importance than the actual work,” she said.

“All reports have clearly shown that police reached the spot 40 minutes later,which is not acceptable. I will talk about the contents of the report only when it comes back from the ministry but this is one aspect which clearly stands out,” she said.

BJP demands apology from Gogoi

With Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s office revealing the identity of the Guwahati molestation victim to the media,the Opposition BJP on Tuesday came down heavily on the Chief Minister demanding his apology for this lapse and also faulted Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her silence on this issue of victimisation of a woman in a Congress-ruled state.

“Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi should be held responsible for this tragic behaviour towards a victim. He should apologise to the women of this nation for having violated the law,” BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said at a press conference. Sitharaman also came down heavily on the National Commission for Women’s (NCW) team for revealing the identity of the victim.