Hundreds of women, holding placards seeking adequate safety for them and to end to sexual violence, marched through a 3 km-long stretch from Bal Bhavan in central Delhi to Rajghat --the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi.
The Chief Minister, who flagged off the 'Mahila Suraksha Samman March', walked about 500 metres upto ITO before boarding a car to reach Rajghat. All her Cabinet colleagues and a number of MLAs participated in the march organised by Delhi Commission for Women.
At Rajghat, some of the favourite bhajans of Mahatma Gandhi including "Vaishnav Jan To Tene Kahiye Jay" were played and a two-minute silence was observed in memory of the girl. Several people including Dikshit offered floral tributes at Gandhi's memorial.
"When we walk down the road at night, we want to feel that we are safe. We don't want to live under the fear of being raped or molested," said Ahana Singh, one of the protestors who joined the march.
"It is not that only because of this incident that we have hit the road. For last few years, Delhi is the most unsafe city for women in India. This should change," said Anushka Singh.
Dikshit was heckled and booed on Saturday at Jantar Mantar when she went there to mourn the death of the girl who brutally raped and assaulted here on December 16. The Chief Minister had to beat a hasty retreat from the protest venue.
A press release issued by the Chief Minister's office claimed that more than ten thousand women participated in the march which included representatives of various NGOs, university students and aged women.
