As outrage grows over MC Josephine’s inappropriate response to a domestic abuse victim, she quits.

M C Josephine, the head of the Kerala Women’s Commission, has resigned amid growing outrage over her disrespectful answer to a complainant.

Soon after her caustic remark was shown live on TV at a phone-in programme organised by Manorama News against dowry and its attendant horrors, the opposition demanded Josephine’s immediate dismissal.

Her resignation was decided at a CPI(M) State Secretariat meeting held here on Friday.

Josephine has at the centre of a scandal after her alleged insensitive words to a domestic abuse victim, with calls for her resignation rising.

On Wednesday, Josephine asked a woman who said she was harassed by her husband and mother-in-law if she had filed a police report against them while watching a live television show.

When the woman replied in the negative, Josephine became enraged and told her to “suffer” for not approaching the police.

The woman claimed she had been married since 2014 and had no children, and that her husband and mother-in-law abused her on a regular basis.

The video of the women panel chief’s behaviour on live television has gone viral on social media, with calls for her resignation flooding in from left-leaning netizens, citing her “insensitive” attitude.

Josephine, a member of the ruling CPI (M) central committee, later expressed regret in a public statement.

She sparked outrage last year when she said her party, the CPI(M), worked as a “court and police station” in response to questions about the communist party’s habit of conducting internal investigations into sexual assault claims against leaders.