A senior minister from India’s ruling social gathering has been urged to apologise after he mentioned that rapes happen “accidentally”. Ramsevak Paikra, the minister answerable for legislation and order in India’s central Chhattisgarh state, made the remarks as he spoke to journalists, in response to AFP.
“Such incidents (rapes) do not happen deliberately. These kind of incidents happen accidentally,” he mentioned late on Saturday. India’s state congress chief Bhupesh Baghel immediately mentioned that Paikra ought to apologise for his “irresponsible statement”, in response to The Economic Times.
Paikra, who’s a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was requested for his views on gang-rape when he made the feedback. His comment comes days after the BJP’s residence minister Babulal Guar claimed rapes had been “sometimes right, sometimes wrong”, in response to Reuters.
Indians have demanded better safety for girls from sexual violence following widespread outrage over the gang-rape and homicide of two teenage women, aged 12 and 14, in India’s Uttar Pradesh state final month.
Paikra’s and Guar’s feedback are simply the newest in a collection of controversial remarks made by Indian lawmakers.