‘Women Protesters Love Rape’ Remark Was Taken Out of Context, Claims RSS Leader TG Mohandas
RSS ideologue T.G. Mohandas has defended his controversial remarks on the Jantar Mantar student protesters, claiming his statements were satirical and had been taken out of context through selective editing.
The Kerala-based RSS leader faced widespread criticism after a video surfaced in which he allegedly said protesters at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar should be “shot” and made offensive remarks about women participating in the demonstrations.
Responding to the backlash, Mohandas said the controversy was created after a one-and-a-half-minute clip was extracted from a 31-minute YouTube discussion and circulated on social media.
He claimed the edited clip distorted the context of his remarks and alleged that Malayalam humour, satire and idiomatic expressions often lose their intended meaning when translated into English.
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Defending his “open fire” comments, Mohandas said they were not a call for violence but a hypothetical explanation of how authorities usually deal with violent mobs after repeated warnings to disperse.
He also accused certain media organisations and Left-leaning social media accounts of selectively sharing the clip to launch what he described as a targeted campaign against him.
The controversy erupted after viral videos showed Mohandas saying that if he were in charge, he would impose a curfew around Jantar Mantar, warn protesters to disperse, and then order police to open fire if they failed to comply.
In another widely shared clip, he made controversial remarks about women protesters, claiming that some women who participate in such demonstrations “like to be raped,” triggering outrage across social media and political circles.
His comments drew sharp criticism from activists, opposition leaders and civil society groups, who condemned the remarks as inflammatory and misogynistic.
