Bharatiya Janata Party’s MLA from Uttar Pradesh Surendra Singh on Saturday said that the parents of young women must inculcate good values ...
Bharatiya Janata Party’s MLA from Uttar Pradesh Surendra Singh on Saturday said that the parents of young women must inculcate good values in them to stop incidents of rape, ANI reported. His remark came amid nationwide outrage over the death of a 20-year-old Dalit woman from the state’s Hathras district, after four upper caste Thakur men raped and tortured her.
“Such incidents can be stopped only with sanskar [culture and values] and not with shashan [governance] or talwar [sword],” Singh, who is an MLA from the state’s Ballia district said.
Singh added that it was the duty of the parents to instil good values in their children. “The government’s job is to protect the people but it is also the responsibility of parents to teach children polite behaviour and manners,” he said. “Our country can become beautiful with the combination of sanskar and sarkar [government].”
#WATCH Incidents like these can be stopped with help of good values, na shashan se na talwar se. All parents should teach their daughters good values. It's only the combination of govt & good values that can make country beautiful: Surendra Singh, BJP MLA from Ballia. #Hathras pic.twitter.com/47AmnGByA3
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