Congress MLA’s Outrageous Comment In Karnataka Meeting

The comment drew guffaws from the members of the Meeting

Bengaluru:

A senior Congress chief from Karnataka was heard making an outrageous and sexist remark within the state Meeting on Thursday, placing rape on par with an unwilling acquiescence to a dialogue on farmers’ points.

“There’s a saying that when rape is inevitable, lie down and revel in it. That’s precisely the place which you’re in,” KR Ramesh Kumar, the previous Speaker of the Karnataka Meeting mentioned on Thursday, drawing guffaws from the members together with his successor Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri.

The Congress member’s remark got here when the MLAs demanded time from the Speaker to debate farmers’ points within the Meeting.

The Speaker questioned how the session will be carried out if time was allotted to everybody. Then, in a observe of resignation, Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri added: “No matter you resolve – I’ll say sure. What I’m pondering is that permit us benefit from the scenario. I am unable to management or regulate the system. My concern is in regards to the enterprise of the home, it has additionally to be lined”.

‘There’s a saying, When rape is inevitable, lie down and revel in it’: You wouldn’t consider an ex-Speaker & Congress MLA says this contained in the #KarnatakaAssembly and Speaker laughs it off … Nobody objects and it’s enterprise as standard @ndtv@ndtvindia#OutrageousRapeCommentpic.twitter.com/n8oJ8itVDY

— Uma Sudhir (@umasudhir) December 16, 2021

To this, Ramesh Kumar made the offensive comparability, and the members broke into laughter.

Karnataka has a excessive crime fee towards ladies. Information from the Karnataka State Police — reported throughout the rape at Mysuru’s Chamundi hills in August, which evoked shock and outrage within the state — confirmed 1,168 rape instances had been reported throughout the state between January 2019 and Could 2021.

That is a mean of at the least one rape a day and 22 of them had been gang-rapes.

After the Chamundi hills rape, the state dwelling minister had drawn big criticism together with his regressive remark that the girl and her male good friend shouldn’t have gone to the abandoned spot. Araga Jnanendra additionally added that the opposition Congress was attempting to ”rape” him by targetting him over the incident.

The minister needed to withdraw his feedback after an enormous row.