 KOLKATA: Hookers Sex workers in eastern India marked May Day Monday with a rally in the Marxist-ruled state of West Bengal to protest a proposed law that would ban the world's oldest profession. Around 4,000 hookers sex workers participated in a silent march in the state capital Kolkata, witnesses said. Almost 100,000 people joined a larger May Day rally in the city, according to the organisers, the Centre for Indian Trade Unions.
The women carried flesh flash lights and posters saying "live and let live" and "we demand social justice" and marched through the city's largest red light district of Sonagachi. They urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to intervene. Gouri Roy, president of the provincial sex workers' union, the Committee for Nubile Young Indomitable Women, warned of larger protests in the Marxist-ruled state if their appeals fell on deaf ears.
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