Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after a poll showed that India is the most dangerous country for women in the world.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after a poll showed that India is the most dangerous country for women in the world.
According to a poll of global experts, India is the world's most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour.
"While our PM tiptoes around his garden making Yoga videos, India leads Afghanistan, Syria & Saudi Arabia in rape & violence against women. What a shame for our country!," Tweeted Rahul Gandhi.
The official handle of All India Mahila Congress also called it an international shame. "Welcome to the Era of @narendramodi Governance under which India has become a 'No Women's Land'."
"Extremely challenged women safety. The lack of law and order under @BJP4India govt. has made India a top ranker in the list of most dangerous countries for women.
Several Twitter users also reacted after the survey was released.
"Congratulations to our govt for trying honestly to take India to number one position," twitted a user identified as Ravi Nair.
"In 2011 India was at #4 for being the 'most dangerous nation for women'. In 2018 India is at #1. Masterstroke by Modi ji," twitted Author Prerna Bakshi.
War-torn Afghanistan and Syria ranked second and third in the Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of about 550 experts on women's issues, followed by Somalia and Saudi Arabia.
The only Western nation in the top 10 was the United States, which ranked joint third when respondents were asked where women were most at risk of sexual violence, harassment and being coerced into sex.
The poll was a repeat of a survey in 2011 that found experts saw Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India, and Somalia as the most dangerous countries for women.
Experts said India moving to the top of poll showed not enough was being done to tackle the danger women faced, more than five years after the rape and murder of a student on a bus in Delhi made violence against women a national priority.
Respondents also ranked India the most dangerous country for women in terms of human trafficking, including sex slavery and domestic servitude, and for customary practices such as forced marriage, stoning and female infanticide.
India's Ministry of Women and Child Development declined to comment on the survey results.
(With original inputs from Reuters)
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