Advocate and social activist Deepika Singh Rajawat while speaking at Jammu and Kashmir United Peace Movement invoked eight-year-old Kathua rape victim and said that she made all of us gather here (at the event), adding that ‘we should not forget what happened to the victim’.
Rajawat said: “I too have a five-year-old daughter, and when I took up this case, I was unaware how this case will become a talking point. Today, my own people call me anti-national, but I was not surprised.” She mentioned Pakistani activist and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, Malala Yousafzai saying that she too was branded as ‘anti-national’ in her own country. “What is happening to me is not unique and I’m just doing my duty,” Rajawat said.
Rajawat said that our society without verifying any facts can call other people names. “My own colleagues are trying to dig into my personal life as they did not get thing against me till now,” she stated. “They want to pull me down, so they are now trying to attack my character,” she added.
“The way things have become communal, I condemn it. Being a Hindu and a nationalist, I condemn it. I believe that no one has authority to give provocative speeches,” said Rajawat. Adding that “India belongs to everyone and we don’t want separation, and we have to save India, it belongs to all of us”.
The advocate further said that Jammu belonged to the community of the victim and it does not belong to those who want separation.
