New Delhi: Under attack for his rape remarks, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said he will never apologise, and instead demanded an apology from Narendra Modi, claiming that the Prime Minister had called Delhi a “rape capital” under the UPA government. “As far as their (BJP’s) demand for apologising (is concerned), I am never going to apologise to them,” he told reporters outside Parliament.
Gandhi also clarified his rape statement that triggered protests by the BJP in both houses of Parliament, saying he has simply made a point that Modi has been talking about ‘Made in India’ but it has now become ‘rape in India’ as incidents of rapes are being reported in newspapers across the country.
He said the main issue today is that “the BJP, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have burnt the entire North East and this is a tactic used to divert attention” by raising his rape remarks.
Gandhi said he has a video clip of Narendra Modi in his phone in which he terms Delhi as the ‘rape capital’ and he will put the clip on Twitter for the whole country to see. “Modi should apologise. For burning the North East. For destroying India’s economy. For this speech, a clip of which I’m attaching,” Gandhi later tweeted.
Talking to reporters, Gandhi said, “Narendra Modi should also reply not just about the violence on women, but also about why he destroyed the country’s economy and he should also answer on why he snatched away jobs of the youth of the country.”
“Today the main issue is that the BJP, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have burnt the North East. That is the issue. And to divert the attention from this issue, Narendra Modi and the BJP are raising my statement,” he claimed.
Gandhi also clarifyed his remarks made in Jharkhand on Thursday. “I had said that Narendra Modi had talked about ‘Make in India’ and we thought we would see ‘Make in India’ in all the newspapers. But, when we read newspapers we only see ‘Rape in India’ everywhere. There is no BJP-ruled state where rapes are not happening against women. In Unnao, a BJP MLA committed rape against a woman, and also got an accident done of the victim’s car, but Narendra Modi did not utter a single word and neither took any action,” he alleged.
“What has happened is that Narendra Modi makes use of violence and spreads it and today there is violence in the entire country. there is violence against women, there is violence in the North East and in Kashmir, and there is violence in the entire country,” he further alleged. (PTI)
