The BJP attacked in Congress on Saturday over a case of the alleged rape and murder of a six-year-old girl belonging to a migrant family from Bihar in Punjab, when it asked opposition party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra why they had he has not yet visited the victim’s family.
Union Minister and BJP leader Prakash Javadekar accused Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi of going on a “political tour” to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, where a Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped and later died, as she questioned the lack of a similar reaction from the two leaders to crimes against women in Punjab and Rajasthan, which are governed by Congress.
They go to these places for a “photo shoot,” Javadekar said, referring to the visit of congressional leaders to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, ruled by the BJP. “A six-year-old girl from a Dalit immigrant family in Bihar was raped and murdered in Tanda in Punjab. The former Union Minister, Vijay Sampla, from our party, met the family. No one from Congress met with them. “
“They (the Gandhis) cannot see atrocities against women in the states where (Congress) is in power. Neither Rahul Gandhi nor Priyanka went there and there was no comment from their president, Sonia Gandhi, “Javadekar told reporters in New Delhi.
He also attacked Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav and said he is campaigning for the upcoming Bihar elections with those who are “shutting up” the atrocity against a daughter of the state.
Javadekar also claimed that the perpetrators of the Tanda rape and murder case had not yet been arrested and demanded strict measures against them.
Union Minister and BJP leader Nirmala Sitharaman also lashed out at the Gandhis. “A 6-year-old son of a Dalit migrant worker from Bihar is raped, murdered and half burned in Hoshiarpur (Punjab) and that does not shake the conscience of the brothers who rush to go anywhere else that can help them politically,” he said. .
The six-year-old girl was allegedly raped, killed and later set on fire, and her half-burned body was found in a house in the village of Tanda in Jalalpur, police said Thursday.
The defendant, Gurpreet Singh and his grandfather Surjit Singh, have been arrested on charges of murder, rape and other relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO), they said.
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