 Edwa is organizing this protest rally basically on the demands against violence, against growing fear and terrorizing the people, hunger and unemployment. You see, for a very long time Edwa has been organizing various agitations all over the country. We have been having big struggles against this increasing violence. If you see the intensity of the violence that has increased in our country in these last few years, it is unprecedented. The figures that are showing to us that now actually only till 2016 the figures are available. After 2016 the NCRP has not given any figures on violence, but up to then 6.6 lakh cases of violence were recorded by the police in the year 2016 and 2015 and 2016. We are finding number of rape incidents are increasing and especially minor on children. The registered number of cases for children below the age of 16 in the year 2016 alone in one year is 17,000 girls below the age of 16 have been subjected to rape in just one year. Similarly, we are finding the conviction rates which are there. The conviction rates are extremely low. For all crimes against women it is approximately 19% and for a lone rape it is only 25%. That means 75% of the cases the victim does not get any kind of justice. One in four rapists are going scoffing. On the other hand a new phenomena is occurring in our country that there are people who are coming out in defense of the culprits, in defense of the rapists. This is something which has never happened before. Openly on the roads it may be in the name of caste, it may be in the name of religion. Aidwa very clearly says that be it any caste, religion, any community a rapist is a rapist and has to be penalized. But we are finding that even that aspect where the incident of violence against women is also being used for polarization in our country which is a very dangerous trend. Secondly, we are finding about we have taken up the entire issue of creating atmosphere of terror. The Denshaad ka mahal hai what we are talking about is increasingly being used to terrorize people from certain communities, from caste and the people who are terrorizing these mobs who move around are the ones who think that they are the law unto themselves and they are not accountable, they are not answerable and they are not penalized. In fact today the situation is such where such kind of mobs are being celebrated by the administration are being promoted are being helped and that means the whole lawlessness that is occurring mob lynching incidents have increased on the slightest basis of a rumor today. Whether not even verifying whether it is the truth or whether it is the untruth people start killing. So, this atmosphere is extremely dangerous and it cannot be tolerated where women victims you see in such kind of violent incidents women are also being targeted women are being made the repositories of the honor of the community or the this whole honor killings that have increased in our country you see in the name of caste and the name of religion inter interfaith marriages are being targeted. So, freedom of any sort today is sort to be curbed and there are these mobs roaming around in our country as moral policing or as people who are today the custodians of so called culture of our country and who are targeting and specifically they are targeting women. Then the whole issue of jobs we all know the promises that were made, but today the joblessness that is there in our country and especially today women are not getting any kind of employment the women's work participation rate in our country today is the lowest since independence. The joblessness has led women to go into any kind of work where exploitation is extreme in the rural areas if you see a woman is going and doing any kind of work that's available to her and there is absolutely no protection many a times just to face sexual exploitation. Now this leaves her into such a vulnerable position today the third part fourth part is of hunger the entire public distribution system has totally collapsed not just collapsed it is now not really the public distribution system for the purpose for which it was meant it was meant to sort of as a counter to the the increasing price rise so that the poor do not remain hungry. Now they have linked Aadhaar and they have put that biometric because of that today majority of the women are not getting the grains that is the reality and time and again the Aadhaar in various states in various agitations have pointed it out to the authorities that the biometric system is not working today none of the thumb prints impression are being recognized and because they are not being recognized firstly they are not recognized so they are denied grains secondly there is no electricity so they are denied grains third there is no internet connection so they are denied grains so the entire process of supplying cheap grains their national food security act itself is in doldrums so Edwa has launched big struggles all over the country in various states saying that we do not subscribe to this Aadhaar and biometric our our aim is that people should not go hungry when you are having the highest malnutrition children in the world in our country at such a time people are dying of hunger people are dying of starvation that's the prime responsibility of the government to supply the grains but they are not doing that they're denying that and that is why on 4th September we are also going to have people from various states who have been victims of violence or who have been symbols of resistance who have resisted the violence that was inflicted on them and are still boldly trying to lead their lives there are interfaith couples who have resisted all kinds of pressures some of them will be coming we are having the lawyer advocated Deepika Rajawat who has kindly agreed to address our rally she will be coming you know she's fighting the case for the Katwa victims the victims family then we are having the Mr. Mahesh Singh Makhi who is the uncle of the onal rape victim he's going to address our rally and many others there will be from different states from Charkhan Haryana from Maharashtra we are having Manrega workers who have not received their wages for as much as two years after working it defeats the purpose of the act because the act was made so that a person can survive but they don't receive their wages if they don't if they receive the work most of the time you don't get the work you have to fight for that and after you fight for that you don't get the wages so there is tremendous kind of pressure on the women and they have organized this rally there will be women from 23 states attending this rally and it will start from Monday house go up to Parliament Street and culminate in a public meeting over there