Delhi Gang Rape-Think before you Speak, Leaders!
Amid high uproar and national outrage over brutal gang rape of 23-year-old girl in moving bus in Delhi, Brave girl “Nirbhaya” dies after putting up daring fight for 15 days. Delhi Rape Case had worked as “Fevicol” joint and bind the whole country together but still there are some people whose controversial statement has again shown us that nothing will change until and unless we change us. People still have 100 year old viewpoint and still women in this society is seen as second-class citizen or weaker section of society. We have compiled these top statements by some known face, whom we consider leaders and guide. These statements are individual statements, but all of those statements seem inspired by the same thought.Let us look at ten such statements.
Asaram Bapu, religious teacher/Godman
The girl should have taken God’s name and could have held the hand of one of the men and said, ‘I consider you my brother’ and to the other two, she should have said, ‘Brothers, I am helpless. You are my brothers, my religious brothers’. Then the misconduct wouldn’t have happened.”
Mohan Bhagwat, Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat has quoted a controversy by saying that ‘rapes occur frequently in India not in Bharat’.”Crimes against women happening in urban India are shameful. It is a dangerous trend. But such crimes won’t happen in Bharat or the rural areas of the country. You go to villages and forests of the country and there will be no such incidents of gangrape or sex crimes.”
Kailash Vijayvargiya, BJP leader and minister, Madhya Pradesh
“Only when Sitaji crossed the Lakshman Rekha, she was kidnapped by Ravan… If Sitaji [woman] crosses the Lakshman Rekha, then Sitaharan [abduction] is bound to take place as Ravans are out there,” Mr. Vijayvargiya said, narrating an incident from the epic Ramayana while seeking to explain the reason behind the recent spate of crimes against women.
Nanki Ram Kanwar
Chhattisgarh Home Minister Nanki Ram Kanwar on Monday said that sexual offences against women occur because their stars do not favour them. He made the comment after reports emerged that 11 minor tribal girls were allegedly raped by their teacher and a peon in a Kanker hostel.
Abhijit Mukherjee, Congress MP and son of President Pranab Mukherjee
In an interview to ABP Ananda, Abhijeet Mukherjee said, “This is almost like the Pink Revolution. These women who are protesting have no contact with ground reality.”“These pretty women, dented and painted, who come for protests are not students. I have seen them speak on television, usually women of this age are not students,” he said in Bengali.
Banwari Lal Singhal, BJP MLA, Alwar
Alwar (Urban) legislator Banwari Lal Singhal has written a letter to the state chief secretary C K Mathew, demanding that skirts should be replaced by trousers or Salwar-kameez.”The intention of this demand is to keep girl students away from men’s lustful gazes and for their comfort in hot and cold weather conditions”
Anita Shukla, agricultural scientist
“Rapes are tend to happen after late night-outs and wrong dressing sense. The incident won’t have occurred if the girl would have worn right clothes and was not out on streets at night,” Shukla said in her address.
Anisur Rahman, MP, West Bengal
Rahman, while referring to the CM’s recent announcement to grant Rs 20,000 to a rape victim, said, “This government will do good to all, farmers, workers, rape victims. This is the same Mamata Banerjee who went to South 24 Parganas and brought Champala Sardar to Writers’ Building claiming she was raped. She takes up those hala fala girls (girls discarded by society). I told her if you want to bring some girls, bring some good girls. There is no better girl than you. We will give her some medal or we can give her Rs 20,000. We ask, Didimoni, what is your fee? How much will you take for getting raped?”
Ashok Singhal, President, Vishwa Hindu Parishad
VHP international advisor Ashok Singhal termed as “alarming” the western model of living, which he said had been imbibed from the US. “This western model is alarming. What is happening is we have imbibed the US. We have lost all the values we had in cities,” Singhal told reporters in response to a question on the growing rape incidents in the country.