Audience: All the parties have stressed on women protection in their manifesto. What will you do that women feel secure?
Modi: If you get the opportunity, in October on Navratri, we have a ceremony that continues till over midnight. You can walk around. You will see young girls, clad in jewellery, will be hanging out and riding their scooties. Everything is possible.
RS: Mulayam Singh Yadav has made a statement at a public meeting that rape is a minor offense and capital punishment is not justified. He said that I become the Prime Minister then I'll change this law.
Modi: If you start collecting such mean statements then, after Mumbai's terror attack, a Congress minister had said, such minor incidents keep happening. This mindset is very dangerous for the country. Don't we feel the pain when such crimes take place? I understand that it takes time to bring about social change. But how can we be so insensitive. For a moment imagine that you are that girl who has been raped. Will you then think that it is a small incident? Or think that your own daughter has been raped and then you'll understand. Every daughter of India is our daughter. The kind of things that we are hearing nowadays, are so troubling to the mind. And even then some ministers add salt to the wound because of their ignorance. It is very painful. I don't want to give a political answer for this nor do I want to score a political point. I pray to God that at least he doesn't give us such mentality.
(Concluded)
