The chief minister was interacting with female journalists, who invited her to share her views on various issues being discussed in the course of poll campaign. When she was asked about her reaction on the Tehelka episode, where a young woman employee has complained of being sexually harassed by the news magazine’s editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, she said that incident has come as shock to all.
‘It has come as a shock for all of us and implementation of rules and regulations of Supreme Court by the administration of corporate sector should be done and they should evolve a mechanism so that they are followed,’ she said referring to the fact that Tehelka had not established the committee required to be set-up to look into cases of sexual harassment in work places.
Dikshit, talking on the issue further, said there was not much difference between the snooping episode allegedly involving Narendra Modi and the sexual assault case of a woman journalist by Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal. She said both the incidents are an attack on the dignity of women.
Reacting to her remarks, BJP’s chief ministerial candidate Harsh Vardhan said that there could not be a comparison between the two. ‘On the one hand we have a complaint lodged by the victim of being harassed sexually, whereas on the other there is unsubstantiated allegation of a media portal about a minister allegedly giving directions for snooping at the behest of somebody. There is no complaint, there is no harassment of anybody but an ugly attempt to fix a political rival,’ said Vardhan.