Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Atul Kumar Anjan on Thursday blamed Indo-Canadian porn star turned Bollywood actress Sunny Leone and her Manforce condom advertisement for the rise in rape cases in India.
"Now there is an advertisement with her (Leone), have you seen it? She is lying down...and a man comes to her. (They show the advertisement) in the morning, at night...an advertisement for condoms, it is such a dirty and horrific advertisement that develops your sexuality and destroys your sensibility," Anjan said during a public rally in Uttar Pradesh, according to Hindustan Times.
Watch Sunny Leone's Manforce Condom Advertisement below.
"If such advertisements for condoms appear in the country's TV channels and newspapers, then incidents of rape will increase. It needs to be stopped," the CPI leader continued.
The politician, in his controversial remarks, called Sunny Leone a nude film actress and accused her of promoting porn in the country and ruining Indian morality and colture.
"Her (pornographic) videos are more popular than today's item songs; she is more popular than Narendra Modi (Indian Prime Minister) and has a larger fan base," he said, according to DNA India.
It is not first time an Indian politician targeted former adult movie star Sunny Leone. A hardline Hindu nationalist politician Pramod Muthalik earlier had said she should be deported back as her porn movies are responsible for spreading rape culture in country, according to India Today.
