NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma on Friday hit out at Karnataka Congress MLA K R Ramesh Kumar for his controversial rape comment, saying it w🦩as "extremely sad and unfortunate" that the country still has public representatives who are misogynists.
The senior Congress leader sparked a controversy after he rem🐎arked in the Karnataka Assembly that ജ“when rape is inevitable, one should lie down and enjoy it”.
"It is extremely sad𓄧 and unfortunate that we still have public representatives who are misogynists and have a horrible mindset towards women,” Sha𝓡rma tweeted.
“It's really disgusting. If they sit in ass💙emblies and speak like this hoꩵw they must be behaving with women in their lives?" she said in another tweet.
Yogita Bhayana, an activist who heads the People Against R♒ape in India (PARI), said the comment by the “shameless” MLA came on a day when the country was observing nine y👍ears of the Delhi gangrape incident.
Sharing a video clip on Twitter, Bhayana said: "This video of ♔Karnataka Legislative Assembly is from yesterday (Thursday) when the country was obser🗹ving the nine years of the Nirbhaya incident. To protect our women, we vote for them (legislators) and this shameless (MLA) is calling rape enjoyment.”
On Thursday, Karnataka Assembly Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri found himself in a fix as he was running short of time and wanted ꧑to wind up the discussion by 6 pm wherea🦹s the MLAs were insisting to extend the time.
"I am in a situation where I have to enjoy and say 'yes, yes'. That's it. This is what I feel. I should𒆙 give up controllꦦing the situation and take the proceedings in a systematic manner, I should tell everyone to continue your talks," Kageri said laughing.
He explained that his only grievance is that t𝓡he busi🍰ness of the house is not happening.
Kumar, a former m🐈inister, intervened and said, "See, there is a saying- when rape is inevitable, lie down and enj🐻oy it. That's exactly the position in which you are".
