Extremely shameful! Karnataka Congress MLA passes sexist remark, says, ‘When rape is inevitable, enjoy it'

Bengaluru, December 16: Showing his disgusting mentality, senior Karnataka Congress leader and former Karnataka Assembly Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar has once again made atrocious and unsavoury comments on rape, saying that "when rape is inevitable, lie down and enjoy it."

 

The senior Congress MLA's distasteful comment was made when MLAs began to demand time from Speaker Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri to discuss farmers' issues in the Assembly.

 

In response to the demand, Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri asked as to how he could run the Session if time was allotted to everyone. Telling members to take the decision on their own, he looked at former speaker KR Ramesh Kumar and said, "I feel that let's enjoy the situation, I can't keep this under control and take it forward in a systematic way."

 

 

 

To this, the Congress MLA, Ramesh Kumar, said, "There is a saying that when rape is inevitable, lie down and enjoy it. That is exactly the position in which you are." What is more shocking is, instead of condemning the remarks, other members of the house, including the Speaker, indulged in laughter.

 

He even tried to justify his controversial remark on rape, claiming that 'intention was not trivialise or make light of the heinous crime'.

 

 

It is not the first time that KR Ramesh Kumar has made such a distasteful comment. Previously, during his tenure as Karnataka Assembly Speaker, he had compared himself to a rape survivor. Legislators including his party's woman members protested in the session and condemned the statement made by him

 

Ironically, yesterday, exactly nine years ago, on December 16, 2012, a 23-year-old medical student, Nirbhaya, was brutally gang-raped by six people on a moving bus in the national capital. It was a night when humanity's worst was on display, and it has forever scarred our minds.

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