{"id":317802,"date":"2019-12-13T09:35:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T09:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317802"},"modified":"2019-12-13T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T09:58:10","slug":"will-not-apologise-for-rape-in-india-comment-says-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/will-not-apologise-for-rape-in-india-comment-says-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Will not apologise for \u2018rape in India\u2019 comment, says Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; 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-308590 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"815\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg 815w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-628x420.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s comment on rape were at the centre of protests in the Lok Sabha on Friday with leaders of the BJP protesting and demanding an apology from him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul said he will not apologise for using the term &#8220;Rape in India&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress leader accused the government of targeting him to steer the focus away from the huge protests in the northeast over the Citizenship bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul said It is PM Modi who should apologise &#8220;for burning the northeast, for destroying India&#8217;s economy and for his speech calling Delhi the rape capital of India.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul along with his tweet shared an old clip of PM Modi calling Delhi &#8220;rape capital&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, both Houses of Parliament witnessed massive protests against Rahul\u2019s use of the term \u2018Rape\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">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=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul, in a public rally had remarked, \u201cNarendra Modi had said \u2018Make in India\u2019 but nowadays wherever you look, it is \u2018Rape in India\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s comment on rape were at the centre of protests in the Lok Sabha on Friday with leaders of the BJP protesting and demanding an apology from him. Rahul said he will not apologise for using the term &#8220;Rape in India&#8221; The Congress leader accused the government of targeting him to steer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801,1],"tags":[579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317802"}],"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=317802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317807,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317802\/revisions\/317807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}