First the gangrape and murder of two teenage girls in Badaun, then the assault on a rape survivor's mother in Etawah - women in Uttar Pradesh are living the worst nightmare of their lives ever. Add to that the sharp awareness of the fact that the state government possibly considers the spate of rape and sexual violence as a phenomena that doesn't need immediate attention.

The bigger story about Uttar Pradesh under the Akhilesh Yadav government is summed by one little statistic: In 2013, the state registered 126 rape cases in one week alone. And the attitude of his government is also equally easy to summarise, this time in one quote from his father Mulayam Singh Yadav who said just last month on rape: "Ladke, ladke hain. Galti ho jati hai (Boys are boys. They commit mistakes)."

In fact, before he was transferred from Uttar Pradesh following the Muzaffarnagar riots, UP, ADG (Law and order), Arun Kumar had said that they had launched a 'helpline' to curb sexual violence against women in the state. "In order to control crimes against women we have come up with the 1090 service, which has been inaugurated by the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. It has been a great success; a number of other states are now trying to replicate the scheme," Kumar had told .

The relevance and utility of just a phone helpline in the face of the wave of violence faced by women in Uttar Pradesh - especially in the vast rural areas - is obviously debatable. Also, it's not just a wave of sexual violence that's washing over Uttar Pradesh under Akhilesh Yadav, various crimes like loot, robbery, murder etc have made the living in the state an ordeal of sorts. One has to point out here that Uttar Pradesh traditionally had a high rate of crimes with its various mafia organisations. The Akhilesh Yadav government was voted to power by the common people with the hope that he'll be able to curb the rate of crime - however, the situation has only gotten worse.


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