TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress president Rahul Gandhi has hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of women safety and questioned his silence on the alleged incidents of rape of girls in some shelter homes in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
The Congress leader said what they did against women in the past four years had not happened in the country in the past 3,000 years. He hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party’s ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, alleging that it was a “male chauvinist organisation” and did not have women in it, thus cannot do what the Congress can for women.
Gandhi also promised to extend his party’s full support to the passage of the women reservation bill and said if the Modi government does not bring it, the Congress will do so soon after coming to power.
He also talked of empowering women within the Congress and bringing them forward in the organisation, for them to lead a state or the country one day. He promised to include more women in central units of the AICC, saying “the country needs them”.