Bhagwat earlier was in the eye of a storm over his remark that rapes happen in India and not Bharat, indicating that rapes are urban issues even though India reports majority of the sexual assault on women from villages.

Translated, what he said in Indore on Saturday at an RSS function, on the marital contract: “Marriage is a social contract where a man under theory of contract is to take care of a wife and protect her so long she looks after household chores and satisfy the man.”