Kerala Congress Chief Mulappally Ramachandran while addressing a meeting at the Congress headquarters to commemorate the UDF ‘betrayal day’ said that any rape victim who has self-esteem will kill herself or make sure to not get raped again.
The former Congress MP referring to the woman involved in the solar scandal who recently accused a Congress leader of rape, said that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan cannot escape by bringing in a sex worker.
“Every day, this woman would wake up saying she has been raped by someone. The LDF has brought a sex worker as a desperate attempt against the UDF and made her tell tales. Chief Minister, this game will not work, this blackmailing will not work. One can understand when a woman is raped once. But she says she is repeatedly assaulted. A woman with self-respect will either die after she is raped once or will try not to be sexually assaulted again” Mullappally was quoted saying in the reports.
He however tendered his apology soon after.
This is not the first time that Ramachandran has been caught making such sexist comments about women. Earlier had made comments on Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja calling her as ‘COVID Rani’ and ‘Nipah Rajkumari’.