Bengal Polls
Bengal polls: Demanding security, voting rights for all sex-workers, Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee to hold rally in Kolkata
Kolkata/IBNS: Demanding adequate security and voting rights for all sex-workers for the forthcoming West Bengal assembly polls, Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee has called for a march in Asia's oldest and largest red-light area Sonagachi in Kolkata on Saturday (Mar 20).
The Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, the country's oldest collective of sex-workers, alleged that premises belonged to the sex-workers were being ransacked at several locations in Bengal while the sex-workers were being threatened across the state that they feel insecure to cast their votes in the upcoming election.
"We will hold the rally to appeal to the government as well as the Election Commission of India to declare red-light areas in West Bengal as 'sensitive zones' and provide adequate security to ensure that all sex-workers across the state can fearlessly cast their votes in the forthcoming election," the sex-workers body's secretary Kajol Bose said in a statement.
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