Nirmala Sitharaman calls for lessons to tackle stress, Congress terms it ‘victim-blaming’

Anna Sebastian Perayil, 26, a CA from Kerala, died 4 months into her occupation astatine EY successful Pune. Her parent successful a missive to EY India president had alleged that her girl had died owed to “work unit and agelong enactment hours”, sparking a nationwide debate.

During an lawsuit astatine a backstage aesculapian assemblage connected Saturday, quality bureau PTI quoted Sitharaman saying: “…was discussing an contented that is successful the quality for the past 2 days…a pistillate who had studied CA well, incapable to header with the enactment pressure, two-three days agone we received a quality — she died incapable to header up with the pressure.” The FM, however, didn’t sanction the worker oregon her the institution she worked for.

Educational institutions indispensable besides thatch definite things that are taught successful the family, she said. “Educational institutions should bring successful divinity and spirituality. Only past volition our children get the interior strength, it volition assistance successful their advancement and that of the country. That is my beardown belief.”

Congress wide caput (Organisation), K C Venugopal deed retired astatine Sitharaman. “The ruling authorities and the Finance Minister tin lone spot the symptom of firm giants similar Adani and Ambani, not the symptom of the hardworking and toiling young procreation wherever freshers similar Anna are exploited by the greedy firm system… It is downright cruel connected the portion of the FM to blasted Anna and her household for suggesting that she should person learnt accent absorption astatine home. This benignant of victim-blaming is despicable and nary words tin convey the choler and disgust 1 feels due to the fact that of specified statements.”