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Ministers, MPs trivialising rapes
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As there is no let-up in certain ministers and MPs coming out with disgusting statements whenever rapes are reported. The latest uncouth remarks on...
As there is no let-up in certain ministers and MPs coming out with disgusting statements whenever rapes are reported. The latest uncouth remarks on rapes by senior UP Minister Azam Khan has startled all the right-thinking individuals who feel ashamed that men holding constitutional posts have the audacity to treat such a serious incident as trivial. The minister's unwanted and irresponsible remarks makes one wonder where the country is heading for. Of late the fact that minors including children below five years are becoming rape victims is sad. The increasing trend of brutal rapes has not only created a fear in women but triggered a controversy as well. As Azam Khan's irrelevant remarks that mobile phones are the sole cause for rapes is not only distressing and disgusting but undermines the feelings of victims unmindful of the physical, psychlogical and emotional trauma they undergo. Thus in the absence of taking effective measures to combat the evil, insensitive remarks coming often from motor-mouths are giving a long rope to the perpetrators to commit sexual offences and escape without fear of law.
Recently even when a woman journalist in Bengaluru reminded BJP leader Eshwarappa about increasing trend of rapes across the country, his remark that neither the government or the opposition could do anything to prevent it is not only sarcastic but shameful thus exposing the narrow mindset of so-called peoples' representatives. It is high time leaders stopped defending perpetrators and instead allowed the law to take its own course so that stringent punishment is handed out to the accused without delay.
K R Srinivasan, Secunderabad
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