BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi's noteworthy statement on the India's Daughter documentary.

Dear Ms Lekhi says she has contempt for the journalistic acumen [of filmmaker Leslee Udwin] and asks, "couldn't she find a rapist in London that she had to travel all way to India?"

Lekhi, who is the BJP spokesperson said on Wednesday when the documentary was being discussed in both houses of Parliament yesterday, said in the LS, "The sense of this House is signalling to the government to not let this documentary air. There should be proper investigation in this matter. This affects tourism... the police should take appropriate action... they should be charged under appropriate sections."

Udwin, 57, says, she began this film with a narrow basis -- why do men rape?

Speaking to the Guardian, she said, "I discovered that the disease is a lack of respect for gender. Its not just about a few rotten apples, its the barrel itself that is rotten."

Before Lekhi, her colleague Sushma Swaraj, the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha in 2012, had called the Delhi gang rape victim a "zinda laash" in Parliament in 2012. The braveheart was still alive then and her statement was condemned by the girl's parents saying it fostered wrong notions about rape victims.


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