Rahul Gandhi’s meeting with women journalists, and a gang rape case takes a radical turn
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Rahul Gandhi’s meeting with women journalists, and a gang rape case takes a radical turn

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint in the last 24 hours.

   
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Rahul Gandhi interacting with female journalists in New Delhi | @INCIndia/Twitter

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint in the last 24 hours.

Rahul Gandhi’s day out with women journalists was sexist, elitist

Seema Mustafa argues that by meeting just women journalists, Congress president Rahul Gandhi has turned the clock back on gender equality, and not in a good way. The meeting, she suggests, promoted segregation in an industry already under deep attack from various quarters.

What Rahul Gandhi told the 100 women journalists

While the circumstances of his meeting have created controversy, Jyoti Malhotra says the session saw a confident Rahul Gandhi answer a range of questions, from his hug-attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to his determination to keep the BJP-RSS from coming back to power. The Congress president also displayed assertiveness that, she suggests, was far cry from the insipid interviews he gave on the eve of the 2014 general elections.

Husband of Panchkula gangrape victim arrested

The case of gang rape of a 22-year-old woman at Morni in Haryana’s Panchkula district has taken a radical turn. Chitleen Sethi reports on the police’s arrest of the husband of the woman, who was allegedly raped by over 40 men, on the grounds that he was trafficking women for sex, including his wife.