Rape in India’: No question of apology: Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday refused to apologise over his “rape in India” remark during an election rally in Jharkhand and hit out at the government saying this was “merely an excuse” for them to divert attention from the main issue.

Speaking to the media in Parliament, Rahul Gandhi said, “All I said was that the Prime Minister keeps talking about ‘Make in India’, but when we open newspapers, all we read is about rapes across India. There are reports of rapes from every BJP-ruled state.”

Responding to demands for apology over his “rape in India” remark, the Congress leader said, “There is no question of apologising. This is merely an excuse for the government to divert attention from the main issue in front of us right now — the citizenship law — and nothing else.”

Slamming the government, Rahul Gandhi said that he has a clip of Prime Minister Modi “and I will put that on Twitter which can be viewed by people across the country.”

He also said that the main issue today is that Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have “burnt” the entire northeastern states.

“And now just to divert the attention of people from the issue of northeast the BJP is taking up this issue,” he said, adding that “I will repeat what I have said.”

“I have said what Narendra Modi has said about Make in India. We thought that Make in India can be read in newspapers, but now when we open the newspapers today then everywhere we read rape in India. No such BJP ruling state is there where rapes are not happening with the women,” he said clarifying his statement.

Citing an example he said that in Unnao a woman was raped by a BJP MLA. Then the victim’s car met with an accident and the Prime Minister did not speak a single word and no action was taken.

Accusing Modi of allegedly believing in violence, he said, “Look what has happened. Modiji uses violence and spreads violence and today violence is there in entire country. Violence is being reported from north east, Kashmir and entire country.” (IANS)

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