BJP attacks Rahul for his 'rape remarks', demands apology

The BJP on Friday launched a no-holds-barred attack, both inside and outside Parliament, against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his rape remarks and demanded an apology from Gandhi, who refused to do so, and instead asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to tender an apology for calling Delhi a "rape capital" under the UPA government.

The BJP disrupted proceedings in Rajya Sabha as well as in Lok Sabha, where the party protest, led by party's women MPs who assembled together just near the Well to attack Gandhi, derailed the scheduled business and forced Speaker Om Birla to adjourn the proceedings twice on the last day of the Winter Session.

Sticking to his guns, Gandhi told reporters outside Parliament, "as far as their (BJP's) demand for apologising (is concerned), I am never going to apologise to them."
Referring to his Jharkhand speech, Gandhi asserted "I had said that Narendra Modi had talked about 'Make in India' and we thought we would see 'Make in India' in all the newspapers. But, when we read newspapers we only see 'rape in India' everywhere. There is no BJP-ruled state where rapes are not happening against women. In Unnao, a BJP MLA committed rape against a woman, and also got an accident done of the victim's car, but Narendra Modi did not utter a single word and neither took any action."