{"id":317798,"date":"2019-12-13T06:55:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T06:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317798"},"modified":"2019-12-13T09:04:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T09:04:07","slug":"lok-sabha-rahul-gandhi-must-apologise-for-his-rape-in-india-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/lok-sabha-rahul-gandhi-must-apologise-for-his-rape-in-india-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"Lok Sabha: Rahul Gandhi must apologise for his \u2018rape in India\u2019 remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-317803 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lok-sabha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/lok-sabha.jpg 686w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/lok-sabha-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/lok-sabha-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/lok-sabha-598x420.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/>The BJP on Friday launched an attack in the Lok Sabha on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his reported \u201cRape in India\u201d comment at an election rally in Jharkhand and sought his apology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Attacking Rahul, BJP\u2019s Smriti Irani said, \u201cthis is the first time in history of India that a leader is giving a clarion call that Indian women should be raped. Is this Rahul Gandhi\u2019s message to the people of the country? He should be punished.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul, in a public rally had remarked, &#8220;Narendra Modi had said &#8216;Make in India&#8217; but nowadays wherever you look, it is &#8216;Rape in India&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several MPs also raised slogans against Rahul Gandhi in the Rajya Sabha after which Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu said, \u201cYou cannot take the name of a person who is not a member of this House. Nobody has the business to disturb the House.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP on its Twitter account said, \u201cAfter everything fails, Rahul Gandhi is back to insulting and denigrating India! It is crass and insensitive to politicise a heinous crime like rape. But what else can we expect of Gandhi scion&#8230;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP on Friday launched an attack in the Lok Sabha on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his reported \u201cRape in India\u201d comment at an election rally in Jharkhand and sought his apology. Attacking Rahul, BJP\u2019s Smriti Irani said, \u201cthis is the first time in history of India that a leader is giving a clarion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":317803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[453,406,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317805,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317798\/revisions\/317805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/317803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}