Watch: Mulayam Singh Yadav's controversial rape remark

There are some things you can always count on, and Mulayam Singh making misogynist comments about rape is one of them. The policitian who stroked a controversy by claiming that boys will be boys, he claimed that it wasn't practical to think that four people could commit rape.  "Innocent persons must not be implicated and harassed. There are cases, where a victim has accused four brothers of raping her. It is not practical," he said.

His remark was slammed by various party members. "The biggest thing is that such a statement reflects SP supremo's disrespect towards women. Such a statement would embolden elements involved in crime against women specially rape cases," Congress spokesman Diwjendra Tripathi said. "It would have been better, if he would have advised the government being run by his son to act tough against such elements," he said.

Senior RLD leader Anil Dubey said the comment was only an attempt to mislead the people. "If the government is failing to check rumours, then it  means that it has also failed to check crime," he said.
"Effort to defame the government is made due to political enmity," Yadav had charged.