Amitabh Bachchan said he feels disgusted to even talk about the recent rape cases in Unnao and Kathua. The 75 year old actor was asked about the brutal cases as the ambassador of Modi’s “Beti Bachao Beto Padao campaign.”
To which Bachchan responded, “Mujhe uss vishay par charcha karne mein ghinn aati hai. So uss vishay ko uchhalo mat (I feel disgusted even talking about it. So, don’t rake up this issue.) It’s terrible to even talk about it.”
Mr. Bachchan was talking at a promotional event for his upcoming movie “102 Not Out” which also stars Rishi Kapoor. Amitabh was not the only actor to react in anger regarding the incident. Several celebrities voiced out their utter disgust with the rape cases.
In the Unnao case, a teenage girl was raped by a BJP lawmaker last year and the accused was arrested just last night. The case was taken seriously only after the girl attempted suicide outside UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s house.
The Adityanath Government has been accused of shielding the BJP lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar. The Government under pressure from the Allahabad High Court pushed the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI.) Yesterday, the CBI detained Sengar and later arrested him.
On the other hand, the case in Kathua relates to an 8 year old Muslim girl who was brutally gang raped and murdered by a fringe Hindu group in Jammu and Kashmir. This attack was done to scare the 8 year old’s Muslim nomadic community.
