“I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did they rape my head, too?”
- A Rape Victim
Such words also don't move the hearts
of our lawmakers. What if these words came out from the mouth of a girl from
their own family? Then they will do everything to punish the culprits,why not
now?
Because most of them will suffer if
strict laws are made in this country.
When politicians say that no sitting
member of the Lok Sabha faces a rape charge. Here i am mentioning a few such
cases:
- Six persons who declared that they had rape
charges against them contested the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. Of them, one
is from the Rashtravadi Communist Party, one from the RPP, a third from
the Bahujan Samaj Party, another from the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha while two
were independent candidates.
- 369 MPs, MLAs face
charges of crimes against women. Charges include heinous crime of Rape and
Molestation, what aam aadmi would expect from such criminals sitting in
law making position?
- Political parties gave tickets to 27
candidates who contested state elections in the last five years and who
declared they had rape charges against them. Of these, seven were
independent, five from the SP, two each from the BJP and one from the
Congress. Ten of these are from UP alone and five from Bihar.
- Six sitting MLAs have declared rape charges
against them. They are Sribhagwan Sharma (SP, Khurja, UP), Anoop Sanda
(SP, Sultanpur, UP), Manoj Kumar Paras (SP, Nagina, UP), Mohammad Aleem
Khan (BSP, Bulandshahr, UP), Jethabhai G. Ahir (BJP, Shahera, Gujarat) and
Kandikunta Venkata Prasad (TDP, Kadiri, AP).
- Political
parties gave tickets to 27 candidates who contested the state elections in
the last five years, who have declared that they have been charged with
rape. Of
these, seven are independent candidates, five have been given tickets by
the SP, two have been given tickets by the BJP and two are BSP candidates.
- When M.P Paras was
called, he said the Delhi gangrape incident was “shameful”. “The culprits
should be punished. It’s an open-and-shut case.” But what about the
charges against him? “They are politically motivated and were slapped on
me by someone who was instigated by the BSP.”
- Even when the entire
nation is on roads shouting for women protection,Himachal Pradesh has
elected 14 MLAs who are facing criminal cases. Five of these MLAs—three
from Congress and two from BJP—face serious criminal cases like kidnapping
or abducting, abatement of suicide, forgery etc. Ten of the 36
newly elected Congress MLAs have criminal background in the House of 68
while three of the 26 BJP MLAs have criminal cases against them, according
to National Election Watch.
- Political
parties also gave tickets to 260 other contesting candidates in the
legislative assembly elections held in the last five years have declared
that they have charges of crimes against women such as outraging the
modesty of a woman, assault, insulting the modesty of a woman etc. Out of the 260
candidates who declared that they have been charged with crimes against
women, 72 are independent candidates, 24 have been given tickets by the
BJP, 26 by the INC, 16 by the SP and 18 have been given tickets by the
BSP.
- Maharasthra has the
maximum number of such candidates (41), followed by Uttar Pradesh (37) and
West Bengal (22).
Source: Individual affidavits/Association for Democratic
Reforms/OutlookIndia
