Even Lord Ram can't stop rapes, says UP BJP MLA

July 08, 2018 10:09

Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Uttar Pradesh, Surendra Singh, on Saturday said "even Lord Ram won't be able to prevent incidents of rape."

"Main daawe ke sath kah sakta hun ki Bhagwan Ram bhi aa jayenge to yeh ghatna (rape) par niyantran kar pana sambhav nahi hai. Yeh samaj ka swabhavik pradushan hai, (I can say with surety that even Lord Ram will not be able to prevent such incidents. This is natural pollution of the society)," Singh told reporters when asked to comment on the recent incident of molestation in Unnao, the video of which went viral on social media.

"It is people's responsibility to treat others as their family, as their sisters. We can only control it through values, not the constitution," Singh added.

The motormouth BJP lawmaker had earlier made statements like "prostitutes are better than government officers" and had blamed parents and teenagers using smart-phones for rape cases.

In the recent past, Singh had come out in support of another BJP lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who is in Sitapur jail as an accused in the Unnao rape case. He had said no one can rape a mother of three children.

Singh had earlier blamed parents and mobile phones for rising rape cases in the country.

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