Congress launches scathing attack on BJP after another gangrape death in Uttar Pradesh

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Lucknow, Oct 01, 2020: The gangrape and killing of another Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh has sparked outrage across the country with several politicians and activists demanding justice and protesters rallying on the streets. Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday left the national capital for Hathras to meet the family members of a gangrape victim.

In Hathras, the district magistrate has imposed prohibitory orders under section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and ordered sealing of the district borders to maintain peace.

The Congress leaders, earlier this morning, lambasted the Bharatiya Janata Party after the 22-year-old died after allegedly being raped by two men in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur district.
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The Dalit woman succumbed to critical injuries on the same day as the teen from Hathras in the state who breathed her last in a Delhi hospital two weeks after she was gangraped. The two men accused of assaulting the woman from Balrampur have been arrested, police said amid outrage over the death of the 19-year-old Dalit woman from Hathras.

The Balrampur victim’s mother Wednesday night told reporters that the rapists broke her daughter’s legs and back, a charge denied by the police.

“My daughter had gone to take admission in a college on Tuesday. On her way back, three-four persons abducted her, took her to their room, gave her an injection and raped her. They later sent her back on an e-rickshaw, which dumped her outside our house. They broke her legs and back. She could not stand or talk,” the woman said.

The ’jungle raj’ that has spread in Uttar Pradesh has no limits and the time for accountability is now, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said, adding that a gruesome incident like Hathras had taken place in Balrampur too. Rahul Gandhi was severe in his attack on the central government.

Alleging that ’atrocities’ on women and the government’s brazenness is continuing, Rahul said, “Did not give respect when alive and also snatched the dignity in death.” His tweet in Hindi referenced the Hathras gangrape victim’s family being allegedly denied the right to properly perform her last rites.

“BJP’s slogan is not ’save girl child’, it is ’hide facts, save power,” he added, using the hashtag ’Balrampurhorror’. Gandhi was referring to the Centre’s scheme ’Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress general secretary in-charge of UP, said a gruesome incident like Hathras has taken place in Balrampur too.

The woman was raped and her legs and back broken, she said. “In Azamgarh, Baghpat, Bulandshahr, girls were brutalised,” the Congress general secretary said in a tweet in Hindi.

“The jungle raj spread in UP has no limits. Law and order is not run by marketing and speeches. This is time for accountability of the Uttar Pradesh chief minister. The public wants accountability,” Priyanka Gandhi added.

Congress’ chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala, who is accompanying the two senior leaders, also lashed out at the Yogi Adityanath government over the Balrampur incident.

“Is it a government of the Constitution or of criminals,” Surjewala said and asked why the UP CM doesn’t resign.

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav also trained his guns on the BJP government after the district administration ordered to seal the borders of Hathras district.

The decision was taken to maintain law and order in the district, which hogged limelight after a 19-year-old Dalit gangrape victim from the district died at a Delhi hospital on Tuesday.



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