Odisha girl’s suicide exposes systemic rot
The Tribune Editorial: A 20-year-old college student set herself ablaze after no action was taken on her complaint of sexual harassment.
Updated At : 05:58 AM Jul 16, 2025 IST
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IT was just a month ago that Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi sang praises of his one-year-old BJP government at the state-level Nari Shakti Samabesh event. The CM said he wanted to make Odisha a model state for women’s empowerment. Ironically, and tragically, the ruling party seems to have put women’s safety on the back burner. The state has been rocked by a series of rapes in recent weeks, including one on the Gopalpur beach in Ganjam district by a gang of 10 men. And now a 20-year-old college student, who set herself ablaze after no action was taken on her complaint of sexual harassment, has succumbed to her burns.
