After a ruckus in the Lok Sabha over Rahul Gandhi's 'Rape in India' remark at a rally in Jharkhand, women Members of Parliament of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday (13 December) filed a complaint with the Election Commission seeking action against him.

Talking to mediapersons outside the Election Commission, Irani said, "Rahul Gandhi is using rape as a political tool. The women MPs have filed a complaint against him over his derogatory remark with the commission. The commission has assured action against him on the complaint filed by the women MPs of the party on behalf of angry families."

"Is every son, brother of the country a rapist? I want to ask the public that till when they will take this insult?" Irani said.

Maneka Gandhi, Debasree Chaudhuri, Saroj Pandey, Bhupender Yadav were also present outside the Election Commission.

Earlier on Friday (13 December), BJP MP and Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani had slammed Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha for his ‘rape in India’ remark.

"This is first time in history that a leader is giving a clarion call that Indian women should be raped. Is this Rahul Gandhi's message to the people of the country? He should be punished,” Irani said.

(With inputs from IANS)