India boils after Taliban discourage female journalists
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi leaves a sharp critique of Prime Minister Narendra Modi following an incident in which female journalists were banned from attending a press conference of the Taliban government's Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaki held in New Delhi, where he said:
"When you let women be excluded from the public arena, you are showing all women in India that you are too weak to stand up for them," reiterating, "In our country, women have the right to equal participation in all areas, but your silence against discrimination this time reflects the emptiness of the" Narishakti "motto you once claimed.
Priyanka Gandhi, a congressman, called on Prime Minister Modi to take a clear stance on the incident, asking: "If your support for women's rights is not just a speech used during the election, then why let the country's most talented women be insulted?"
Meanwhile, P Schidambaram, the former interior minister, said: "Male journalists should stand by getting out of the press room immediately when they see that women are barred from leaving - but they seem to have been barred from leaving first."
On Mahua Moitra's side, an MP from the TMC party issued a heated condemnation of the government, stating that "the government has degraded all Indian women," questioning Foreign Minister S.Jaichankar, "Why is it acceptable to hold a press conference that deprives women of this on Indian soil?"























































































