Difficult to protect daughters if we can’t teach sons: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called for a social movement for protecting girls in the wake of increasing rapes reported from different parts of the country. He said, families have to teach their sons to become responsible while addressing a gathering in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandla to mark the National Panchayati Raj Day. Modi referred to the ordinance brought by his government last week that provides for death sentence to those convicted of raping a child below 12 years of age and life term to those raping a child below 16. Modi said his government called for steps to give more respect to the daughters in the families. “The government in Delhi listens to your heart. We should learn to give respect to daughters in the family, we should increase the importance of daughters in the family and start teaching sons about responsibility. It will never be difficult to protect daughters if we start teaching sons about responsibility." “The one who acts devilishly will face the gallows. We have to build a social movement and we can all together bring out the country from this problem,” he said. -PTC News
