MP Congress MLA links women’s beauty to rape, later says ‘I don’t agree with it’
Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Phool Singh Baraiya triggered a controversy after allegedly linking women’s beauty to rape and associating sexual crimes against women from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes with what he described as “teerth phal” (rewards of pilgrimage). Baraiya’s statements came to the fore on Saturday, when Lok Sabha Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi was…