THE All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), in a statement issued on August 29, has strongly condemned the decision of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of reinstating and promoting Laxman Savadi in the government. He has shown scant respect for constitutional propriety and women when he was a member of the Karnataka state assembly earlier.

The BJP has once again shown its total disrespect for women by making Laxman Savadi, the deputy chief minister of Karnataka.

Laxman Savadi lost in last year's state assembly election. Currently, Savadi is neither a member of the Karnataka legislative assembly or the council.

In 2012, Laxman Savadi, CC Patil and Krishna Palemar resigned as Karnataka ministers after they were caught watching porn in the assembly while the proceedings were on. Laxman Savadi said that they were watching it for "educational purposes”, to know more about the rave parties. Seven years later, two of them — Patil and Savadi — are back in the state cabinet.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes tall claims through the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign of providing security to women. It is in fact the opposite. The Manusmruti propagating BJP has exposed its true anti-woman character once again.

There is a long list of BJP leaders who have made derogatory statements against women. Recently, the BJP Mahila Morcha leader, Sunita Singh Gaud had said that Hindu men should make a group of 10 and gang rape Muslim mothers and sisters openly on the streets and then hang them in the middle of the bazaar for others to see. The controversial remark of the Haryana CM Khattar on Kashmiri women exposes the patriarchal culture within the BJP. BJP MLAs were on the roads to prevent the arrest of the accused in the rape and murder of the girl child in Kathua. The attempt to murder the Unnao rape victim by the accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar who is at present lodged in the jail shocked everyone. It is extremely disturbing that such people as Savadi are today being promoted to positions of power.  

AIDWA will continue its campaign to expose the real anti-women face of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar.