The National Commission for Women (NCW) and the National Commission for Defense of Kid Rights (NCPCR) have served notices on Madhya Pradesh Congress working president Jitu Patwari for a tweet targeting the Centre, which said it begot five ” daughters”– note ban, GST, inflation, unemployment and economic downturn– in a failed attempt to have a “boy” called advancement
While NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma, taking suo motu cognisance of the tweet, on Thursday looked for an explanation from the MLA and previous Minister “at the earliest” on the “objectionable tweet”, the NCPCR on the day requested him to apologise to “kids of the nation” and inform the commission of it within three days.
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Describing the remark as “sexist”, the NCW kept in mind Mr. Patwari tried to draw an “obnoxious analogy” in between daughters and several financial problems incl