Delhi protests: BJP wants president to call special session
The BJP will ask President Pranab Mukherjee to call a special session of Parliament to discuss the vast public anger and protests in Delhi after a medical student was gang-raped on a bus in the capital last weekend. Over the weekend, the police clashed repeatedly with thousands of demonstrators, many of them students, who defied a ban to gather at India Gate. Many asked that laws be amended to provide the death penalty for rapists; all asked for better policing on Delhi's streets at night to protect women.
