Jagdeep Dhankhar condemns Kapil Sibal for ‘symptomatic malaise’ remark

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 30

Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday condemned Rajya Sabha MP and Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Kapil Sibal’s statement describing acts of violence against women as a “symptomatic malaise”. Dhankhar said such statements were akin to trivialising the suffering of girls.

“I am appalled; I am pained and somewhat surprised that someone holding a position in the Supreme Court Bar, a Member of Parliament, acting in a manner and what does he say? A symptomatic malaise and suggested that such incidents are commonplace? What a shame! Words fail me in condemning such a stance. It is doing the greatest injustice to the high position,” Dhankhar said.

Addressing students and faculty members on the theme ‘Role of Women in Viksit Bharat’ at Bharati College, Delhi University, Dhankhar said such statements were akin to trivialising the suffering of girls.

“For partisan interest? For self-interest? You take a stance, leveraging your authority to perpetrate such kind of heinous injustice on our girls and women? What can be a greater injustice to humanity? Do we trivialise the suffering of our girls? No, not any longer,” the Vice-President said.

Describing the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital as a “painful” incident, the Vice-President called for a deterrent ecosystem to punish the perpetrators for such crimes.

Referring to President Droupadi Murmu’s exclusive article on the Kolkata incident, Dhankhar reiterated her expression, “Enough is enough”.