This is a throwback to Sushma Swaraj’s 2012 Lok Sabha speech advocating capital punishment for rape.
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00:00Many times I have said that such people should be hanged
00:05People say that the capital punishment should be abolished
00:08Tell me, a woman who is a victim of such an incident
00:12should neither be alive nor dead
00:15She will live her life as a living corpse if she is saved
00:22Madam President, Delhi is the capital of the country
00:26As a capital, the law system here is not under the state government
00:31It is directly under the central government
00:35But it is very sad when the headlines are published in the newspapers
00:40and Delhi's law system is criticized
00:43and it is said that this city is the most unsafe city for women
00:49And this criticism becomes more painful
00:53when it is revealed that the Chief Minister of Delhi is a woman
01:00There are new incidents every day
01:03Instead of improving the law system
01:06the Chief Minister of Delhi says
01:09that it is her advice that women should not go out alone at night
01:16The incident that took place last night
01:19was at 9.30 pm
01:22The woman was not alone, she was accompanied by her male friend
01:26Neither was the incident late at night
01:29nor was the woman alone
01:32A 23-year-old female physiotherapist
01:36sits in a bus at 9.30 pm to go to Dwarka
01:42None of the passengers inside
01:46are women
01:49They are sitting there with an impure intention
01:54They tease the woman
01:57Her male friend resists
02:00and tries to fight
02:03He hits her on the head with iron rods
02:07And then he misbehaves with the girl
02:11He rapes her and throws her off the bus
02:16But this is not a single incident
02:19These incidents are taking place every day
02:23I have said many times
02:26that such people should be hanged
02:29People say that the capital punishment should be abolished
02:32Tell me, if a victim of such an incident
02:35is neither alive nor dead
02:39Will she live her life as a living corpse?
02:42She is still fighting for her life
02:45I don't know if she will survive or not
02:48But if she survives
02:50she will live her life as a living corpse
02:53Shouldn't such people be hanged?
02:59The women who work in call centres
03:02are hungry at night
03:05Because the call centres are open at night
03:08They are middle-class families
03:12They are not alone
03:16What else can they do?
03:19At 9.30 in the night
03:22A woman walks with her male friend
03:25and such incidents take place
03:28Tell me, in what words should she be criticised?