Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met the family of the woman Hathras on Saturday.
New Delhi:
Congressman Rahul Gandhi slammed a BJP MP on Sunday who said the rapes could only be stopped if parents taught ‘sanskar‘or values to their daughters amid national outrage over the alleged gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old woman in the Hathras of Uttar Pradesh.
“It’s the dirty chauvinistic masculine RSS mentality at work. Men rape but women have to learn good values,” he said, commenting on BJP leader Surendra Singh’s remark on Twitter. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS is the ideological mentor of the BJP who rules the UP and at the center.
While his government came under fierce criticism over the savage assault on the woman and the administration’s actions since, the BJP leader said: “It is the duty of all mothers and fathers to imbibing good values in their daughters and raising them in cultivated environments. “
“I am a teacher in addition to being a member of parliament. Such incidents (like rape) can only be stopped with sanskar and not with shasan (governance) or talwar (referring to the sword or force ), “Surendra Singh said on Saturday, when asked about crimes against women in the state.
The 20-year-old woman, from the long-oppressed Dalit community, was attacked on September 14 in a field near her home in the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh, allegedly by a group of so-called caste men. superior “. His death on Tuesday sparked protests across the country.
Four suspects were soon arrested, but Yogi Adityanath’s government came under fire for forcibly cremating the woman’s body that same night at 2:30 a.m. in a dark field while her parents were locked in an apparent effort to curb a violent reaction.
Congress hammered the BJP over the incident with Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, also Congress leader, visiting the family on Saturday evening after a dramatic confrontation with cops who had besieged the region, blocking politicians and media.
