Abhijit Mukherjee, member of Parliament from Jangipur in West Bengal and son of President Pranab Mukherjee, made a bizarre statement on Thursday about how he had his doubts about the veracity of the female student population in the anti-rape protests in Delhi over the last few days. He said the women looked “highly dented and painted” (whatever that means) for them to be students.

He was not alone in this shameful misogyny. BSP MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq, a member of the parliamentary standing committee on home affairs, said that women wearing “provocative clothes” were responsible for the incidents of rape around the country.