After “Enjoy Rape” Shocker, Karnataka Congress MLA’s Apology

Bengaluru:

Hours after his extremely reprehensible “get pleasure from rape” comment triggered huge outrage, a senior Congress chief in Karnataka on Thursday apologised for the “detached and negligent” remark made within the state meeting.

“My intention was not trivialise or make mild of the heinous crime, however an informal comment! I’ll select my phrases rigorously henceforth!” Congress MLA KR Ramesh Kumar wrote in a tweet final evening.

The outrageous comment was made during a discussion on farmers’ points when Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri questioned how the session could be performed if time was allotted to everybody.

“No matter you resolve – I’ll say sure. What I’m considering is that permit us benefit from the state of affairs. I can not management or regulate the system. My concern is concerning the enterprise of the home, it has additionally to be lined,” he requested.

To this, the Congress MLA stated: “There’s a saying that when rape is inevitable, lie down and luxuriate in it. That’s precisely the place which you might be in.” Shockingly, others within the state meeting laughed in response.
 

I want to specific my honest apologies to everybody for the detached and negligent remark I made in at this time’s meeting about “Rape!” My intention was not trivialise or make mild of the heinous crime, however an off the cuff comment! I’ll select my phrases rigorously henceforth!

— Okay. R. Ramesh Kumar (@KRRameshKumar1) December 16, 2021

However it was the remark was later met with big criticism. “The remark is obnoxious and outright disgraceful. He’s a serial offender whereas he was the Speaker of the meeting he had made an analogous remark. Now once more, he has repeated it. The Congress, which has all the time claimed it’s there for ladies’s security and safety, should instantly provoke motion towards this serial offender.” BJP chief S Prakash remarked.

This isn’t the primary time that Mr Kumar, 72, has made such an objectionable remark. In 2019, he had in contrast himself to a “rape survivor”.

Pointing to repeated reference to costs towards him on being a part of some controversial audiotapes, he stated his “state of affairs was like that of a rape sufferer, as they too are supposedly questioned concerning the incident repeatedly”.

Earlier this yr, Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra’s questionable response to the Mysore rape case, which sparked big protests, had additionally led to criticism. The gang-rape sufferer and her male pal mustn’t have gone to the abandoned place, he had stated.

Slamming the Congress for making it a political challenge, the Residence Minister additional stated, “Rape has occurred there (in Mysuru), however the Congress was attempting to rape me, they’re attempting to rape the Residence Minister. They’re attempting to achieve political mileage.”

The insensitive feedback from elected representatives come even because the nation continues to see an uptick in crimes towards girls.

Information launched by the National Crime Records Bureau earlier this yr confirmed that India had recorded a median of 77 rape instances every day in 2020.

In Karnataka, the state police information confirmed 1,168 rape instances had been reported throughout the state between January 2019 and Could 2021 – a median of a minimum of one rape a day.