Zubeen must apologize to Nishita, Prastuti, demands women's rights group

 

GUWAHATI: The Assam Chapter of the North East India Association for Women's Studies (NEIAWS) has condemned youth icon, Zubeen Garg, for his "outrageous act and grossly insensitive behavior" at the recently conducted

 

 

Slamming Zubeen for heaping "sexist language on actor Nishita Goswami", the NEIAWS has also taken affront to Zubeen embracing Prastuti Parashar for "making an overt physical reference to her body."

 

 

The organizations has also alleged that Zubeen "dismissed and chased away from the stage Milin Dutta, founder of socially progressive NGO, “Anaajoree.”

 

 

"LGBTQI ,the gay and transcommunity was not treated with the respect and dignity it deserved from a singer of Zubeen Garg’s calibre," it added.

 

 

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Taking exception to his speech which it termed as "injurious, insulting and extremely sexist in nature and not acceptable either in a public forum or in private usage", the organization demanded Zubeen to write a statement of apology to both the actors, Nishita Goswami and Prastuti Parashar as well as to transman and social worker, Milin Dutta.

 

 

The NEIAWS further added that gender awareness and sensitization across society is really the need of the hour as many sections of the public on that evening , including the people present on the stage, cheered and regaled the singer as he carried out his "shocking act."

 

 

"The NEIAWS seeks an unconditional collective public apology from the singer to the two women involved in the incident and to all women in general whom he has insulted by this blatantly gender insensitive act of his and to the trans community of the region," the release added.