Rapes Have Come Down Because PM Modi Gave Women Toilets: Sambit Patra

Mumbai: BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra said that rapes have come down in many states because Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave toilets to women.

Addressing a program at the Delhi BJP office here, Patra highlighted the achievements of the BJP government at the Center for eight years.

He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his visits to girls’ schools and interactions with women, realized that the dropout rate of girls was higher than that of boys.

Research has shown that this was because schools did not have toilets, Patra said.

He said that most of the rapes took place when women from rural areas came out in the dark to join the call of nature.

A toilet is associated with many aspects, including dignity and health, Patra said and added, “In many states, the rape rate has come down because the prime minister has given ‘izzatghar’ (toilets) to women.”

Patra said that no one ever thought that a prime minister could talk about toilets while addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort, but Modi did.

“Modi is the first Prime Minister of the world who talked about toilets,” he said.

He said that at present more than six lakh villages of the country have become open defecation free.

Referring to the Modi government’s ‘Jan Dhan’ account scheme, through which 20 crore women were provided financial assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, Patra said they are the largest block of the category of “silent voters” who vote for Modi.

X`In the last eight years of the Modi government a new word, “beneficiary”, has been added to the political discourse. Earlier, the governments were formed on the basis of caste and religion of voters and dynastic politics but now beneficiaries decide who will come to power, he said.

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