Short skirts cause women harassment: Trinamool lawmaker
July 28th, 2012 - 7:57 pm ICT by IANSKolkata, July 28 (IANS) Bengali actor and Trinamool Congress legislator Chiranjeet aka Dipak Chakraborty Saturday contended that short dresses worn by women were one of the main reasons behind the increase in incidents of harassment of women in his constituency in the North 24 Parganas district.
“Eve-teasing is a very old thing. It has been going on for ages. One of the reasons behind the increase in incidents of eve-teasing is short dresses and short skirts worn by women. This in turn instigates young men,” said Chakraborty, who represents Barasat.
His comments come a day after a girl was harassed in the area.
“The incident of eve-teasing is not good. We condemn it but we need to see one thing that there can be no Ramayana without a Ravan,” said Charaborty.
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