'Rape Cases Can Be Stopped Only With Sanskar Not Governance' - UP MLA Makes Bizarre Statement
After the alleged gangrape of a Dalit woman in Hathras, UP, resulted in massive outrage and brought back memories of the Nirbhaya incident from 2012, a BJP MLA in the Ballia district has come up with a bizarre statement.
After the alleged gangrape of a Dalit woman in Hathras, UP, resulted in massive outrage and brought back memories of the Nirbhaya incident from 2012, a BJP MLA in the Ballia district has made a bizarre statement.
"I am a teacher along with being an MLA. Such incidents (like rape) can be stopped only with sanskar (culture), not with shasan (good governance) or talwar (referring to sword or might)," the BJP's Surendra Singh said according to a report in NDTV.
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"It's my dharma, government's dhrama but family's dharma too... While the government is committed to protecting, the family should be committed too to imbibe good values in their children. Sanskar and sarkaar can make India beautiful, there is no other alternative," he added as can be heard in the video.
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"Why do you think rape cases continue even as people say this is Ram Rajya?" he went on to say.
#WATCH Incidents like these can be stopped with help of good values, na shashan se na talwar se. All parents should teach their daughters good values. It's only the combination of govt & good values that can make country beautiful: Surendra Singh, BJP MLA from Ballia. #Hathras pic.twitter.com/47AmnGByA3
¡ª ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) October 3, 2020
Here's how people reacted to what he had to say:
Misogyny and caste supremacy galore. Disgusting. Dalit women and all women have to fight this precise misogyny. How dare these men talk about what women need to learn.
¡ª Sanjukta Basu (@sanjukta) October 3, 2020
ANI is equally responsible to spread such thinking, shameless news channel
¡ª Mohammad Rafiq (@morfiqali) October 3, 2020
Only daughters?what about boys?....Jin ladkio k sath Rape hote hain unme sanskar nhi hote kya......2- 3 saal ki bacchiyon k sath ku hota hai rape?
¡ª Gurpreet Singh (@Gurpree32983117) October 3, 2020
Kaisi party hai yaar ?
¡ª Ishika Agarwal (@IshikaAgarwal03) October 3, 2020
He is the Same guy who defended Kuldeep sengar pic.twitter.com/UbVrqdqjmT
¡ª Nehr_who? (@Nher_who) October 3, 2020
@BJP4UP this type of MLA is reality of bjp top agenda ye MLA h or teacher bhi h ise koi smjhao k ladki ko smjhane se accha ladko ko snskar do but iske Jaise Neta hi ladko ko support krte h .... Sharm kro doob Maro khi @IycFaridabad @IYC @priyankagandhi
¡ª Sandeep Patel (@Sandeeppatel400) October 3, 2020
Surendra is known to make controversial statements. In 2019, he said Nathuram Godse, the man who killed Mahatma Gandhi, 'was not a terrorist' and he 'committed a mistake'.
Earlier in 2020, he called West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee a 'cruel-hearted woman'.
