Former Madhya Pradesh CM and current Home Minister Babulal Gaur was allegedly caught on camera inappropriately touching a woman during an event in Bhopal. The incident seemed to happen when the woman was boarding a bus.
The BJP minister has often been in the eye of the storm for controversial statements. He had once said: "Alcohol does not increase crime. People lose their consciousness after consuming alcohol and that's how it causes crime. The person who drinks within control does not cause crime. One should not overdrink. It is one's fundamental right. Drinking is a social status symbol these days".
He has also said once on his visit to Chennai: “Women in Tamil Nadu wear full clothes and hence the crime rate is lower there as compared to other states.”
Before that he recited an event in which he told the wife of a Russian leader how to untie a dhoti. "I tol her I can't teach you how to wear it, but I can certainly teach you how to remove it, but that too later, not now," Gaur had said in remarks that angered women right activists. The Minister had also described rape as a social crime, saying "sometimes it's right, sometimes it's wrong".
With inputs from agencies
