: The India Fix: A decade after Nirbhaya, why does BJP think endorsing rapists will win votes? #IndiaNEWS Welcome to The India Fix by Shoaib Daniyal, a newsletter on Indian politics. To get it in your

The India Fix: A decade after Nirbhaya, why does BJP think endorsing rapists will win votes? #IndiaNEWS
Welcome to The India Fix by Shoaib Daniyal, a newsletter on Indian politics. To get it in your inbox every Monday, sign up here (click on “follow???). Have feedback, interesting links or disagreements? Send them to theindiafix@scroll.in.December 2012 saw vigorous protests, mostly in the city of Delhi, centred around women’s safety. The trigger was the brutal gangrape and murder of a 22-year-old woman who had been labelled “Nirbhaya??? or Fearless to conform to Indian law that rape victims should not be identified.Politically, much of this anger hit the Congress, which at the time was ruling in both Delhi as well as the Centre. It is unclear if the protests directly swung many votes, but like the allegations of ministerial corruption at the time, they helped to delegitimise the Congress government in the public conversation. Later, an angry Sheila Dixit, the Congress chief minister of Delhi during the assault, blamed the media for blowing the incident “out of proportion??? in order to create a “political scandal???. Unsurprisingly, one of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s major attacks against the Congress in its successful campaign for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls was lack of women’s safety.U-turn?Fast forward a decade back and the political economy of women’s safety seems to have taken a drastic...Read more

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