Trinidad and Tobago: Hundreds join Kamla Persad Bissessar in protest against Saree Disrobing skit (Pics inside)

Dr Keith Rowley, Hindu population, Hinduism, Hindus, India, Kamla Persad Bissessar, PNM, saree disrobing, Trinidad and Tobago

Kamla Persad Bissessar is a senior politician of Trinidad and Tobago and is the first woman to hold the office of Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

As per the 1990 official census, Hindu community accounts for 24 percent of the total population of Trinidad and Tobago.

Angry at the saree disrobing she gave a call to everyone who felt outraged at the obnoxious way a woman in a saree was disrobed in front of a crowd. She gave a call for protest on August 15th, 2018 and said:

“I ask you to join me as we assemble outside the Office of the Prime Minister on Thursday, August 16th at 12 noon in protest against the PMs condoning of a “skit” portraying the removal of a woman’s clothing by men dressed in masks and calling themselves PNM Guerillas at the PNM family day.

The fact that the PM and the Minister of National Security see this public display as an acceptable in our already crime-ridden country is shameful and insulting to all women. The portrayal of the men as basal, brutish and violent is equally insulting.

Join us in yellow, let your voices be heard. We must defend our mother’s sisters and daughters and demand that PM Rowley and Minister Young apologize and retract their statements.

Violence against women and condoning actions which glorify such violence in the name of petty politics is NOT FUN.

As a citizen, we must demand that the Government act in the interests of all our citizens. We must refuse to be bullied, and treated as second-class citizens with no rights, by those whose salaries we pay.

Join me.”

At her call, hundreds turned up to show that they stood for equality and respect for women with many in the same yellow saree that was stripped off of a woman. Here are the pics of the protest:

 Dr Keith Rowley, Hindu population, Hinduism, Hindus, India, Kamla Persad Bissessar, PNM, saree disrobing, Trinidad and Tobago

 Dr Keith Rowley, Hindu population, Hinduism, Hindus, India, Kamla Persad Bissessar, PNM, saree disrobing, Trinidad and Tobago

 Dr Keith Rowley, Hindu population, Hinduism, Hindus, India, Kamla Persad Bissessar, PNM, saree disrobing, Trinidad and Tobago

 Dr Keith Rowley, Hindu population, Hinduism, Hindus, India, Kamla Persad Bissessar, PNM, saree disrobing, Trinidad and Tobago

 Dr Keith Rowley, Hindu population, Hinduism, Hindus, India, Kamla Persad Bissessar, PNM, saree disrobing, Trinidad and Tobago

 Dr Keith Rowley, Hindu population, Hinduism, Hindus, India, Kamla Persad Bissessar, PNM, saree disrobing, Trinidad and Tobago

 Dr Keith Rowley, Hindu population, Hinduism, Hindus, India, Kamla Persad Bissessar, PNM, saree disrobing, Trinidad and Tobago

 Dr Keith Rowley, Hindu population, Hinduism, Hindus, India, Kamla Persad Bissessar, PNM, saree disrobing, Trinidad and Tobago

 Dr Keith Rowley, Hindu population, Hinduism, Hindus, India, Kamla Persad Bissessar, PNM, saree disrobing, Trinidad and Tobago

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