Chandigarh, November 30: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Kirron Kher on Thursday drew rage and backlash on Twitter for her comment against the Nov 17 Chandigarh gang-rape victim.
Kher invited the backlash after she quipped that the Chandigarh gang-rape victim could have prevented the incident by using her ‘common sense’.
Kher referred to the Nov 17 incident where a 21-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by three men while returning home in an auto-rickshaw.
The Twitteratti, including Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal, vented their anger at the parliamentarian for her “insensible and victim-shaming” comment.
Maliwal tweeted:
Victim shaming & blaming by woman MP @kirronkherBJP. Pathetic! Sorry but unlike some, survivor may not be able 2 afford luxury of a car! So many times, most of us hv been stuck without transport & end up sharing vehicles. How does it make one responsible 4 wrong act by others? https://t.co/HYJjxhg4vu
— Swati Jai Hind (@SwatiJaiHind) November 30, 2017
Comedian Sorabh Pant commented:
Kirron Kher is right.
The victim should have bought a BMW and hired 5 armed guards.
Can’t understand why more people don’t do that.
Victims are such gareeb idiots.
They deserve 0 empathy. https://t.co/XdCodB7jU5— Sorabh Pant (@hankypanty) November 30, 2017
The Twitter thrashing did not stop here. A user tweeted her disagreement with Kher, saying: ” slap on the face of every woman who risks going out there to make a life for themselves.”
Speaking at a press conference here, Kher on Wednesday said that the woman, who was allegedly gang-raped by an autodriver and his two accomplices, should have applied common sense and not boarded the vehicle as three men were already sitting inside it.
#WATCH BJP MP Kirron Kher says ‘she (Chandigarh rape victim) should not have boarded the auto rickshaw when she saw three men sitting in it’ (29.11.17) pic.twitter.com/Daqe95rTIO
— ANI (@ANI) November 30, 2017
” I wish to comment on the girl’s sense of judgement. Why would you get into an auto which already had three men in it? I am saying this to protect the girl,” I am saying this to protect the girls…,” Kher said.
By Debarghya Sil with inputs from ANI