Modi should apologise. 1. For burning the North East. 2. For destroying India’s economy. 3. For this speech,… https://t.co/PnjmILYwJr — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) 1576221904000

NEW DELHI: Rubbishing demands from BJP that he apologise for his “rape in India” remark, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said he stood by his comment and rising rape cases were a reality under Prime Minister Narendra Modi .He said he would never apologise to BJP and, interestingly, tweeted an old video clip of Modi in which the PM is calling Delhi the “rape capital”. “Today, the main issue is that BJP, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have burnt the north-east. That is the issue. And to divert attention from this issue, Modi and BJP are raising my statement,” Rahul said.He said he had simply made a point in an election rally that Modi has been talking about “Make in India” but it has now become “rape in India” going by incidents of rapes reported in newspapers across the country.“There is no BJP-ruled state where rapes are not happening against women. In Unnao , a BJP MLA committed rape and is also involved for the accident of the victim’s car, but Modi did not utter a single word and neither took any action,” he alleged.“Modi should apologise. For burning the northeast. For destroying India’s economy. For this speech, a clip of which I’m attaching,” he later tweeted. “What has happened is that Modi makes use of violence and spreads it, and today there is violence in the entire country. There is violence against women, there is violence in the north-east and in Kashmir, and there is violence in the entire country,” he added.