India, Dec. 24 -- A day after the Unnao rape survivor and her mother were forcibly removed from a protest at Delhi's India Gate, Uttar Pradesh minister OP Rajbhar on Wednesday laughed off the incident, drawing sharp criticism.

The survivor and her mother were protesting against the Delhi High Court's decision to suspend the sentence of Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a former BJP MLA convicted in the 2017 rape case.

"I wanted to kill myself then and there, but I stopped after thinking about my family," the survivor told India Today TV on Tuesday evening, recounting the moment she and her mother were dragged away from the protest site.

When reporters sought Rajbhar's reaction to the survivor being driven out of India Gate, he remarked, "but her h...