Why Stay Silent

When a woman is ‘eve-teased’, more often than not, she ignores the incident so as not to ‘further encourage’ such behaviour. It’s as though the incident was somehow triggered by her, and she is solely responsible for the offender’s reaction.

On the other hand, few women, like Anita Bairwa Sarpanch, Shivdaspura, Jaipur district, will in no way tolerate such indecent behaviour and will go ahead and confront the offenders, demanding a justification for thinking that it is perfectly ‘okay’ to treat a woman as they deem fit.

So, what did Anita do? She decided to do something about the rampant eve-teasing in her neighbourhood that made it increasingly difficult and unsafe for women to move around. She entered politics and address the issue, once and for all.

In addition, she approached JDA, under whose jurisdiction her neighbourhood falls, to find out means to solve the problem of water scarcity. She \ invited sarpanches from other villages to get together with her and have pipelines running through the villages, so that everyone has access to water.

Here is a woman who gives us ample reasons to be inspired and refrain from remaining silent about problems we face. If only do we address it religiously, will the government give such problems the due it deserves. If a woman in a remote district can get together with like-minded people to figure out solutions to civic issues and women safety problems, women, in an urban set-up can surely be more aggressive about voicing out their concerns.

So, make an impact with your vote. Convince other women that they can make an impact too.
Go out and vote together.
Go out, and use the #PowerOf49.