Renuka Chowdhury

Renuka Chowdhury (in another transcription also: Chowdhury , Choudhury , Chaudhary , Choudhry ; Telugu రేణుక చౌదరి Rēṇuka Caudari ; born August 13, 1954 in Visakhapatnam , Andhra ) is an Indian politician of the Congress Party and former minister for women and child development in her country.

At the age of 30, Chowdhury entered the political scene and was initially involved in the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in her state of Andhra Pradesh . From 1986 to 1998 she was a member of the Rajya Sabha , the upper house of the Indian parliament, for her party TDP for two legislative terms before she left the party in 1998 and switched to the Indian National Congress (INC), also known as the Congress Party. For her new party, she was elected as a member of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Indian parliament, for five years each in 1999 and 2004 . From mid-2004 to 2009 she was Minister for Women and Child Development in her country in the Cabinet under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh .

In this function, she has enforced some quite explosive laws, for example the 2006 law to protect women against domestic violence. It was then that a wave of hatred overwhelmed them for their laws, which many Indians saw as "unpopular". In 2007 she caused a stir again when she denounced the millions of female fetal abortions . Her suggestion: “We will raise the children. Don't kill them, this is really a crisis situation. ”- Women should give their newborn girls to the state, which then raises them in specially built orphanages in order to counter the blatant excess of men.

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1. ↑ cf. Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 43 of February 21, 2007, page 4