"No Rapes In BJP Tenure?" Siddaramaiah On Alleged Bengaluru Gang Rape | Read
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah - under fire from the opposition BJP over the alleged rape of a woman in Bengaluru last week - hit back with an ill-advised attempt at deflection, asking if no sexual assault cases had been reported when the saffron party was in power.
He was responding to the BJP demanding his Home Minister, G Parameshwara, resign over this and other incidents of sexual assault and crimes against women, including the horrific murder, also last week, of a six-year-old girl in the state capital's Hoysala Nagar neighbourhood.
"Were there no rapes in BJP's tenure? Rape shouldn't happen, yes. Women should be protected, yes, But in society there are always bad elements... we will act strongly against them," he said.
