London [United Kingdom], April 19 (NT): Addressing a gathering at the event 'Bharat Ki Baat, Sabke Saath' in London, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday stated that it is shameful to politicize the issues related to rapes and sexual assaults in the country.

'Bharat Ki Baat, Sabke Saath' event was held in the Westminster's Central Hall in London .this was moderated by well-known Indian lyricist Prasoon Joshi.

PM Modi stated, "A rape is a rape. How can we tolerate this exploitation of our daughters?"

Prime Minister Modi's notes come in the milieu of a nationwide fury over the rape cases in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and Uttar Pradesh's Unnao.

"When a child is raped, do we compare metrics versus earlier governments? That is shameful. We cannot say there were this many rapes in our government and that many of yours. There cannot be a worse way to deal with this issue," Prime Minister further said.

PM added that there is not anything worse than a child is raped, while raising a question to the audience that why do the parents get anxious when their girl child comes not on time to home but never raize questions the boy child about his whereabouts.

In the Kathua case, an eight-year-old girl was allegedly drugged, tortured and gang-raped endlessly for a week by eight people in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua on January while In the Unnao case, the survivor has alleged that she was raped by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar at his residence on June 4, 2017, where she had to go with a relative seeking a job.