New Delhi: Under attack for his rape remarks, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said he will never apologise, and instead demanded an apology from Narendra Modi, claiming that the Prime Minister had called Delhi a "rape capital" under the UPA government.
"As far as their (BJP's) demand for apologising (is concerned), I am never going to apologise to them," he told reporters outside Parliament.
Gandhi also clarified his rape statement that triggered protests by the BJP in both houses of Parliament, saying he has simply made a point that Modi has been talking about 'Made in India' but it has now become 'rape in India' as incidents of rapes are being reported in newspapers across the country.
Meanwhile, the BJP on Friday launched a no-holds-barred attack, both inside and outside Parliament, and demanded an apology from Gandhi.
The BJP disrupted proceedings in Rajya Sabha as well as in Lok Sabha, where the party protest, led by party's women MPs who assembled just near the Well to attack Gandhi, derailed the scheduled business and forced Speaker Om Birla to adjourn the proceedings twice on the last day of the Winter Session. A delegation of BJP's women parliamentarians including Union minister Smriti Irani on Friday approached the Election Commission and demanded "strongest possible action" against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his comment on rape. Irani charged Gandhi with using rape as a "political tool" in the wake of assembly polls in Jharkhand.