[ Updated with Memorandum to Chief Minister of Delhi ]

In the wake of heightening instances of rape, an alarming social reality is being constantly entrusted upon. One of the most serious social threats is the incessant rape irrespective of age groups.

Ranging from below the age 5 years girl child to 80 years old women are all increasingly dragged within the ambits of rape. It is a pertinent question to ask why such incidents are taking a strong root continuously and why and how these incidents are happening unabated.

There is hardly any day, newspapers do not report about molestation, rape, eve teasing etc. I.P. University College and Mukherjee Nagar molestation incidents were just one of those ‘many eye openers’. We are also confused what the Governments (Delhi and Union) are doing to curb the menace.

The concerned authority should take moral responsibility of all these shameful and unsocial acts. If we remain silent on these distasteful incidents, perhaps, the time is not far when all the girls and women in India to cover their faces not because of the 'Pardah System' but for their future prospects as well as the fear of social ostracism.

It is an ultimate necessity to fight back the continuing threat on women’s chastity particularly since no society can progress without a collective enjoyment of freedom and equality. MSAD also expresses its concern for the increasing sexual harassments of girls and racial discrimination (irrespective of sex) from the Northeastern side of India (read as mongoloid stocks of Northeastern India).

This particularization is not meant to be the only reason for the progressive resistance that is aimed at. It is a usual experience that students and persons hailing from Northeastern region of India are treated as the ‘other’ with specific categories that suit the malicious dominant consciousnesses and prejudices.

The ‘otherness’ of the ‘other’ is categorized as barbarous, uncivil, unrefined, underdeveloped, tribal, easy and so on, which determines a social relationship that establishes racial prejudices with ultimate capacity to reproduce exploitation, domination and harassment of the ‘other’ in the hands of the dominant.

We demand the resignation of irresponsible Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, Chief Minister, Shiela Dixit and the concerned Delhi Police Commissioner who cannot protect freedom and dignity of women. What Shiela Dixit, being a woman, has done so far to save our sisters and mothers from the ‘monsters’? It is also a shame on those who see women only as mere sex symbols.

It is in the light of these increasing abhorrent incidents that the Manipur Students’ Association, Delhi is organizing a “Protest Demo” against the escalating threat to women on 13-10-07 at Delhi.

We request people from all sections of society to join the Demo. It is a fight to make Delhi a safe city for women.

Let us join hand to fight this social evil

Apunbana yaifare!

Date : 13th October 2007
Venue : ITO Junction
Time : 2.00 p.m.

Organised by:
MSAD Committee Against Sexual Harassment
(Manipur Students’ Association, Delhi)

RSVP: msad(dot)manipur(at)gmail(dot)com /
         9868002757, 9911905891, 9899925345, 991162528

Submitted to the Chief Minister of Delhi
Submitted by the Manipur Students' Association Delhi
Submitted on the occasion of the protest demonstration against sexual harassment of women and racial discrimination of minority peoples