more-inJawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student-activist Shehla Rashid has thanked Twitter users who came out to report singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya’s tweet in which he made some disparaging comments against her. The singer’s account has been suspended by Twitter. Ms. Rashid said that the tweet by Mr. Bhattacharya about her was “an ironic defence of BJP leaders against allegations of involvement in sex scandals and other anti-social activities”. ‘I respect sex workers’Ms. Rashid said that her message to the men in BJP who think they can silence her is simple: “Stop trying to silence me by calling me a sex worker. The BJP wants to replace the Constitution of India with the anti-women Manusmriti, which relegates women and Dalits to second-class citizenship,” she said.

Source: The Hindu May 24, 2017 19:59 UTC