#JeeneDo: List of people who made absurd statements on women

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant seems to be surrounded because of his statement in the gang rape case of two minor girls in Goa. By the way, he is not the first leader to make such statements about women. Several leaders have made absurd comments about women and rapes. Check out some of the statements made by our political leaders.

Hyderabad: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has landed himself in the eye of storm because of his statement in the gang rape case of two minor girls in Goa. Sawant had said that why the girls were out till so late at night, it is the responsibility of the parents to ensure the safety of the children and they should not let their children especially minors to stay out overnight.

By the way, he is not the first leader to make such statements about women. Several leaders have made absurd comments about women and rapes.

1. Tirath Singh Rawat

As soon as the former chief minister of Uttarakhand Tirath Singh Rawat got the responsibility of the state, he made a flurry of controversial statements. One of these statements was also about the clothes of women. Rawat had associated ripped jeans from the knees of women with rituals. After which he had a lot of trouble from his political opponents on social media.

2. Meena Kumari

Meena Kumari, a member of the Uttar Pradesh Women's Commission, said, "Society itself will have to be serious about increasing crimes against women. Mobile is a big problem in such cases. Girls talk on mobile for hours, mix up with boys. Their mobiles are also not checked. The family members do not know and then they run away with the boys while talking to them on the mobile."

3. Mulayam Singh Yadav

On rape cases, former Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav had said in a rally in support of changing the laws that "when there is a difference of opinion between boys and girls, the girl gives a statement that I have been raped, After this, the poor boy is sentenced to jail. Will he be hanged for rape? Boys make mistakes."

4. Sharad Yadav

The year 1997 was when the women's reservation bill was being debated. Sharad Yadav had said, "By getting the Women's Reservation Bill passed, you want to bring estranged women in the House." However, Yadav had to apologise for the protest. In 2017, Yadav had said that "the respect of the vote is greater than the respect of the daughters. If the respect of the daughter is lost, then the respect of the village and the locality will be lost, but once the vote is sold, the honour of the country will be lost".

5. Kailash Vijayvargiya

BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya had said that women should do such makeup, which creates reverence, not excitement. "Sometimes women do such makeup, which makes people excited. It is better that women stay within the Lakshman Rekha. There is only one word - limit. If the dignity is violated, then Sita is abducted. Lakshman Rekha has been drawn for every person. If anyone crosses that Lakshman Rekha, then Ravana is sitting in front, he will kidnap Sita and take her away."

6. Digvijay Singh

Congress leader Digvijay Singh, who was in the headlines for his statements, had made objectionable remarks on a woman MP of his own party. While addressing a public meeting, Digvijay Singh had called MP Meenakshi Natarajan "Sau Taka Tanch Maal".

7. Abhijit Mukherjee

Former president Pranab Mukherjee's son and former Congress MP Abhijit Mukherjee had commented on women who took part in the protests against the Nirbhaya gang rape. Abhijeet had said that "it has become a fashion to come to the streets with candles in hand, these dented-painted protesting women first go to the disco and then come to the India Gate and perform."He apologised for it later.

8. Naresh Agarwal

After the rape case came to light in Budaun, UP, Naresh Aggarwal had raised questions on the victim by giving an absurd statement. Naresh Aggarwal had said that "today even the animal of one's house is not taken by force."

9. Anisur Rehman

During an election rally in 2012, CPIM leader Anisur Rehman said that "We want to ask Mamata didi how much compensation she needs, how much money will she take for rape?" Anisur Rehman made this statement after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced compensation for rape victims. He later apologised.

10. Sheila Dikshit

Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit had said on the 2008 murder of a TV journalist Soumya Viswanathan that "women should not be too adventurous. She was driving alone at three in the morning in a city where it was dark in the night." Women going out is not considered very safe, I think we should take some precautions." Soumya Vishwanathan was murdered in the same city of Delhi where Sheila Dikshit was the Chief Minister at that time.

11. Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has told freedom as the reason for rape.She had said that because of the freedom given by the parents to the boys and girls, incidents like rape are happening.

12. Chiranjit Chakraborty

TMC leader Chiranjit Chakraborty had said in a statement on the rape case that girls are also responsible to some extent for such incidents as their skirts are getting shorter every day. Chiranjeet, who came into politics from films, said, "Molestation of girls is not a new phenomenon. This kind of incident has been happening since ancient times. This is a minor incident. If this kind of incident does not happen then how will the film work? It is important to have a villain in the film. There would be Ravana in Ramayana, wouldn't it?"

13. Azam Khan

During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan targeted BJP's Jaya Prada and said, "one whom we brought to Rampur by holding the finger, we made her our representative, it took 10 years to find her intentions, I in 17 days recognised that her underwear is khaki colour."

14. Bansilal Mahato

Bansilal Mahto, a former BJP MP from Korba, Chhattisgarh, in the year 2017, took the name of the then state sports minister Bhaiyalal Rajwade and said that he often says that now girls are not needed from Mumbai and Calcutta, Korba's Turi and Chhattisgarh's Girls have become "tanatan".

15. Jitendra Chattar

Jitendra Chattar, a Khap leader of the Jind district of Haryana, had said that fast food was the reason for rape. According to him, by eating chowmein, the hormonal balance of young men and women is deteriorating, due to which one feels like doing such work.

16. Vibha Rao

Chhattisgarh Women's Commission Chairperson Vibha Rao had said that women are responsible for crimes against women. Rao said, "Women are giving wrong messages to men by adopting western culture, their clothes, their behaviour gives wrong signals to men."

17. V Dinesh Reddy

V Dinesh Reddy, who was the DGP of Andhra Pradesh, has also been embroiled in controversies over his statements regarding rape. As DGP, Reddy said that "provocative clothing of women is largely responsible for the increasing incidents of rape in the state". In Andhra Pradesh, 1290 rape cases were reported in a year (2011).

18. CC Patil

CC Patil, who was the Minister of Women and Child Welfare of Karnataka, had also called the dress of women the reason for the increasing cases. Patil said the woman should know how much of the body she has to show and how much to hide.

19. Abu Azmi

Samajwadi Party's Abu Azmi had said about eve-teasing in Bangalore that where the sugar falls, the ant comes there, where there is petrol, there will be fire. Nowadays, the more nude girl she is, the more fashionable she is. If the girls of my family will go to party at night on 31st December and their husband, father or brother is not with them then they are also wrong.

20. Asaram Bapu

Asaram Bapu has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the rape case, but at one time he also gave his absurd advice in the Nirbhaya case. Asaram had said that clapping is not done with one hand, if the rape victim had called the perpetrators brothers, her honour and life could have been saved.

21. Kiran Bedi

Kiran Bedi, known as the first woman IPS officer, had also been embroiled in controversies by calling rape a petty thing. While in Team Anna, she once said that "the media doesn't even discuss allegations of corruption even once. Ask yourself how to discuss a petty rape by a low-ranking police officer. But the 15 ministers who Prashant Bhushan and Arvind Kejriwal have given evidence of corruption against, media do not even discuss them. However, after this Kiran Bedi had to explain her statement.