After creating controversy with his remarks that rapes were prevalent in India and not in Bharat, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that men and women are bound by a contract according to which a women’s duty is to take care of the household chores while the husband’s duty is to earn for the house and protect his wife.
In a speech in Indore, Bhagwat said that a husband and a wife are “bound by a social contract” where the wife has to take care of the household chores and the husband’s duty is to earn for the house and protect his wife.
The RSS leader further said that the husband can disown his wife if she fails to fulfil her ‘duties’ and in the same manner wife can also abandon her husband if he is not honouring the contract. Both can go for a new contract, Bhagwat further said .
Earlier on Thursday, addressing a citizens’ meet, Bhagwat had said that rape is more prevalent in urban areas which are influenced by western values.
Addressing the meet in Silchar, Assam recently, Bhagwat said that rape was more prevalent in urban areas which were influenced by western values and not by the rural Indian culture.
Bhagwat said, “Such crimes hardly take place in ‘Bharat’, but they occur frequently in ‘India’.”
However, he did not give any documentary evidence to prove his point. It is well-known that many rapes in rural areas go unreported in the country.
“You go to villages and forests of the country and there will be no such incidents of gangrape or sex crimes. They are prevalent in some urban belts. Besides new legislations, Indian ethos and attitude towards women should be revisited in the context of ancient Indian values,” Bhagwat said.
(With PTI inputs)