Former Karnataka Speaker Ramesh Kumar, whose flippant touch upon rape on the ground of the Home on December 16 had drawn flak, has apologised.
In a tweet, he stated: “I want to categorical my honest apologies to everybody for the detached and negligent remark I made in at the moment’s meeting about rape. My intention was to not trivialise or make mild of the heinous crime, however a casual comment! I’ll select my phrases rigorously henceforth!”
On December 16, when Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri expressed helplessness about not with the ability to curtail the lengthy speeches of members, Mr. Kumar had stated, “There’s a saying…when rape is inevitable, lie down and luxuriate in it. That’s the state of affairs you might be in too.”
Mr. Kageri had laughed loudly in response. None within the Home had objected to Mr. Kumar’s remark or Mr. Kageri’s response.
All India Congress Committee normal secretary in control of Karnataka, Randeep Singh Surjewala, had disapproved of the comment.
He tweeted: “Congress celebration disapproves the extremely objectionable and insensitive banter between Karnataka Meeting Speaker & Sr Congress MLA within the Home. Speaker as custodian & Sr legislators are anticipated to be function fashions & ought to desist from such unacceptable behaviour.”
Karnataka has, on multiple event, seen folks’s representatives making insensitive remarks about rape. After the gang-rape of a medical scholar in Mysuru in August 2020, Residence Minister Araga Jnanendra had stated that opposition was politicising the incident and ‘raping him’.
Whereas he had claimed that it was not more than a ‘joke’, he later withdrew his remark, and apologised.
Mr. Kumar, when he was Speaker, had drawn the ire of ladies members by evaluating himself to a rape survivor.
