New Delhi : The government on Saturday clarified that it had no role in the event addressed by Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi. The other parts of the work in the case. It is to be noted that opposition leaders, including Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra raised issue of exclusion of female journalists from a Taliban press conference in Delhi on Friday.
Official sources said, The Ministry of External Affairs had no involvement in the press interaction held yesterday by the Afghan foreign minister in Delhi. No women journalist was present at the press conference addressed by Muttaqi, triggering widespread criticism over the Taliban’s gender bias this time on Indian soil. Photographs from the event showed Taliban leaders addressing a men-only presser.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra posted on X, tagging Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji, please clarify your position on the removal of female journalists from the press conference of the representative of the Taliban on his visit to India. If your recognition of women’s rights isn’t just a convenient posturing from one election to the other, then how has this insult to some of India’s most competent women been allowed in our country, a country whose women are its backbone and its pride, Gandhi added.
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram also expressed his dismay, saying, I am shocked that women journalists were excluded from the press conference addressed by Mr Amir Khan Muttaqi of Afghanistan. The exclusion also provoked outrage among journalists and social media users, who called it a blatant display of misogyny and an insult to India’s democratic ethos.
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra also lashed out at the government, saying, the government has dishonoured every single Indian woman by allowing the Taliban minister to exclude women journalists from the presser. Shameful bunch of spineless hypocrites. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh echoed the criticism, posting, “(Tali)ban on female journalists in India. Shocking and unacceptable that the Government of India agreed to it and that too in New Delhi on the eve of the International Day of the Girl Child.
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