The Bharatiya Janata Party MLA of Uttar Pradesh Surendra Singh said on Saturday that parents of young women should instill in them good values to stop incidents of rape, ANI reported. His comment came amid national outrage over the death of a 20-year-old Dalit woman from the state district of Hathras, after he was raped and tortured by four upper-caste Thakur men.
“These incidents can only be stopped with sanskar [culture and values] and not with shashan [governance] or talwar [sword]”Said Singh, who is an MLA from the state’s Ballia district.
Singh added that it was the duty of parents to instill good values in their children. “The government’s job is to protect the people, but it is also the responsibility of parents to teach children polite manners and behavior,” she said. “Our country can become beautiful with the combination of sanskar and sarkar [government]. “
#WATCH Incidents like these can be stopped with the help of good values, na shashan se na talwar se. All parents should teach their daughters good values. It is only the combination of government and good values that can make the country beautiful: Surendra Singh, BJP MLA from Ballia. #Hathras pic.twitter.com/47AmnGByA3
– ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) October 3, 2020
Singh has also made controversial statements in the past. He said in November that Nathuram Godse, the murderer of Mahatma Gandhi, was not a terrorist but an individual who had made a “mistake.”
The Hathras case
The UP government led by Adityanath faces immense criticism for its handling of the Hathras grape case. The 20-year-old woman was ganged and tortured by four upper-caste Thakur men on September 14, and she died in New Delhi on September 29. The woman was hastily cremated Wednesday at midnight, without allowing her family to perform the last rites.
Amid shock and anger at the UP government and police conduct, Adityanath on Saturday ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to investigate the case.
Earlier in the day, Congressional leaders Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi along with three other party MPs met with the woman’s family.
On Friday, Adityanath suspended Hathras Police Superintendent Vikrant Vir and four other policemen. Hours earlier, Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, several leaders of his party Aam Aadmi, and Bhim’s army chief Chandrashekhar Azad joined hundreds of people at the Jantar Mantar in Delhi to protest against gangrape and death. of the 20-year-old Dalit woman. .
On Thursday, the Allahabad High Court learned suo motu of the Hathras gangrape case and ordered senior government officials and police to appear before him on 12 October. The judges said the case had shocked his conscience.
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