Monsoon session: Congress MPs flag girls' escape from Bihar shelter; seek debate on protection home safety, voter rolls and drug menace

Expressing concern over women’s safety in protection homes , Congress MP Ranjeet Ranjan has asked the Rajya Sabha to hold a discussion on the “escape” of 13 girls from a girl protection home in Siwan in Bihar. In a notice in the upper house Tuesday, Ranjeet has said that the matter is very serious because it not only highlights the poor security and protection measures in the girl protection homes in general, but also the management issues of these establishments.

The Congress MP said the 13 girls scaled a 30 feet high wall in the darkness of night to flee the protection home on March 19. “This raises serious concern about the reliability and credibility of the protection homes, while also posing questions about the law and order situation,” She said.

Ranjeet has also discussion on “the growing drug menace” in Odisha, West Bengal and other states.

Meanwhile, Congress whip in Lok Sabha Manickam Tagore has moved an adjournment motion seeking a debate on the special intensive review of electoral rolls in Bihar. He has said that the move will lead to largescale disenfranchisement of the poor and the marginalised sections in the state, which is headed for polls in a few months.

Congress Lok Sabha MP Saptgiri Ulaka has sought an urgent debate on the recent self immolation by a girl student in Balasore in odisha, who had complained about victimisation following her petition of sexual harassment by a professor. The girl died after a couple of days of self immolation, triggering protests.