‘BJP biggest threat to women in country, say Atishi, Bharadwaj

Delhi ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj on Thursday attacked Lt Governor V K Saxena and the BJP over the sacking of "illegally" appointed contractual employees of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), alleging that the saffron party is the "biggest threat" to women in the country.

 

The Women and Child Development (WCD) Department of the Delhi government terminated the services of 52 "illegally" appointed contractual staff of DCW, officials said on Thursday. The termination has been carried out on the basis of a report submitted by a committee way back in June, 2017.

The WCD Department sent a proposal on the basis of the recommendations of the committee to Saxena, who approved it, following which the department issued the termination order, the officials said.

In a post in Hindi on X, Atishi said, "The staff of the Delhi