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    #SoniaGandhi @PMOIndia: Sack #Kurien! Don't Trash #India's #Rape Law!

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    To: Sonia Gandhi, President of the Congress Party

    Dear Mrs Sonia Gandhi,

    We are shocked that you are allowing  Kurien, a politician in your party, who was identified by a teenage gang rape victim (in the Suryanelli case) as one of 42 men who raped her, to chair the Parliamentary discussions on India's new anti-rape law!

    It is a mockery of the...

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    Dear Mrs Sonia Gandhi,

    We are shocked that you are allowing  Kurien, a politician in your party, who was identified by a teenage gang rape victim (in the Suryanelli case) as one of 42 men who raped her, to chair the Parliamentary discussions on India's new anti-rape law!

    It is a mockery of the women of India! How can you do this? You are a woman! You are the most powerful politician in India!  And as is universally known, you are the 6th most powerful woman in the world!! Even more powerful than Michelle Obama! So why would you be using your position and power to trash India's anti-rape law?

    Many of us are now questioning that you are deliberately trashing India's anti-rape law TO PROTECT YOUR OWN PERSONAL interest.  In 1984 under the direction of your husband, Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister, politicians in your party, unleashed a wave of crime on the Sikh community in Delhi.  Women were raped, and hundreds were killed. Not a single case has got justice yet.  Sikhs for Justice recently pointed out  your words about feeling for India's women in the aftermath of the Delhi gang rape in Dec 2012 are plain rhetoric. You have politically repressed and conveniently forgotten the "vicious cycle of rape and murder let loose against Sikh women in 1984 at the behest of [your] husband."  

    Isn't this why your party refused Justice Verma's recommendations on the new rape law including the recommendation that all politicians charged with rape be removed and tried?

    SONIA GANDHI: IF YOU USE YOUR POWER AND POSITION TO PROTECT RAPISTS, AND TO TRASH INDIA'S SYSTEM OF JUSTICE FOR WOMEN, WE NOT FORGET, AND WE WILL NOT FORGIVE! WE WILL MARK YOU AS AN ENEMY OF THE WOMEN OF INDIA!!

    We demand that Kurien and all other politicians charged with rape serving any office in India be sacked immediately, and put on trial.  India is watching you and so is the world!

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    How can a politician accused in a gang-rape case, chair the hearings for India's new anti-rape law?   And this is being allowed by Sonia Gandhi, the most powerful politician in India?  Why would she allow it? Does she have a personal reason?

    It is very important Sonian Gandhi and the government of India hear from the people of India and from around the world before Feb 19.   The government is undecided and watching public response closely.  So EVERY VOICE COUNTS! THIS IS URGENT! We need to act FAST to get  Sonia Gandhi to sack Kurien immediately!

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    1. Update #1

      Posted by Rita Banerji (Campaign Leader) on Apr 2

      Dear Friends,

      Thank you for supporting our petition for the young woman who was gang raped at Suryanelli, and who is still fighting for justice.  One of the main accused in the case was a powerful politician P.J. Kurien who the government has so far protected.  However, due to increased public pressure, a Sessions Court in Kerala has ordered issue of notice to Kurien on a criminal revision petition filed by the Suryanelli rape victim.The case seeks to include Mr Kurien as an accused with...

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      Dear Friends,

      Thank you for supporting our petition for the young woman who was gang raped at Suryanelli, and who is still fighting for justice.  One of the main accused in the case was a powerful politician P.J. Kurien who the government has so far protected.  However, due to increased public pressure, a Sessions Court in Kerala has ordered issue of notice to Kurien on a criminal revision petition filed by the Suryanelli rape victim.The case seeks to include Mr Kurien as an accused with charges of raping the victim, something that the government has resisted doing so far.  This is one small step towards justice, but it is progress. We need to keep the momentum up.  Please share this petition on facebook and twitter. Make sure you include the twitter handle for the Indian Prime Minister @PMOIndia so the government knows the pressure is still on! Thank you all for your support!

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    for christs sake, this man must be booted out right away!, what kind of a man is he? OF COURSE HE MUST BE SACKED AND RIGHT NOW.SUCH AN UGLY PERSON, WHO ABUSES WOMEN AND THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN, HAS NO RIGHT TO WORK IN POLITICS OR HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, ETC.A DISGRACE THAT HE EVEN THINKS HE HAS THE RIGHT! DISGUSTING.

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    Nandlal Soni

    thank you manjuji Mitra i am agree with you !

    Rabindranath Das

    What do you mean....in the VVIP cell of a prison near to his house...Manju? it should be the rarest of rare sentence....otherwise it will be of no use...he will distribute money and contest election from the prison...for sure....

    Take all his material posessions and repay back the women he has abused. Take most of his wages and continue to pay back the community. Remove him from Government and do not allow him to have any job that has any authority, keep him away from females. He needs therapy and healing to make those necessary changes and a new beginning, unfortunately in India a lot of men see women as rubbish and this needs to change immediately. It is not just in India but worldwide problem.

    χρηστος πικης

    I agree Dalila, especially with your last phrase.

    Law and order is missing.

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    Suzie Pierce

    Mahesh Bhatia
    Perhaps the LAW is PART of the PROBLEM!! who will ever know.

    Vick Sharma

    Law's will not change the crises, till the society start thinking differently about women.

    Defend tje Rights of Women and children!

    Monica Larsson

    Helt otroligt, vilken skandal!!

    Ingvar Ygeman

    Skandal är ett bra ord i sammanhanget.

    These bastards escape saying it is opposition planned.

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    Stäni Steinbock

    That's not an escape! It's disgusting!

    Nandlal Soni

    I am agree with Mr. Rajeev Awasthi !

    PLEASE, SHARE THIS LINK AND SIGN THIS PETITION.

    All forms of abuse must end NOW.

    χρηστος πικης

    I comletely agree with you dear Poonam. But to this purpose, someone must protect people from their institutional protectors.

    Sudeep Dixit

    We have to come forward. Those responsible for these type of crimes should be punished in public. Because our Law is Lame and Courts are deaf n dumb.

    Philomena Amaral -Indian.
    Why do we need people like him who if you let him go free he will do it again and many others will follow him and the plight of women in India will be terrible. All Indians should smash him, India pretends not to hang or give him the electric chair, well the I suggest cut off his penis and let him go with the mark of Cain for by then he will be the laughing stock Of not only India but of the world. MINA

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