NEW DELHI: The Bjp beat Congressional leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday for their “selective outrage“in cases of atrocities against women, as he questioned his” silence “on the alleged rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in Punjab.
Noting that the young woman belonged to a family of Dalit immigrants from Bihar, Finance Minister and BJP leader Nirmala Sitharaman also attacked Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav, questioning whether he had asked Rahul Gandhi about the issue while conducting a joint election campaign with him in the state.
In attacking Yadav, he referred to a 2008 news report to discuss the “allegations of jokes and misconduct with women against the RJD brothers,” a reference to him and his older brother Tej Pratap.
“It (the Punjab incident) may not hurt RJD because that’s the way things were when they were in power,” Sitharaman told reporters as he skinned Lalu Prasad Yadav’s party for the “jungle raj” during his government in Bihar during 1990-2005.
Striking in Congress, he said: “The pretentious Congress has not said a word. Hoshiarpur incident. There has been no outrage. And not a picnic either. ”
His “picnic” mockery concerned the visit of Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi to Hathras in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, following the alleged massacre of a Dalit girl, who subsequently died in a Delhi hospital.
The BJP had accused Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi of practicing “political tourism”.
“The Congress party should stand up and respond. Does this kind of selective outrage suit the stature of your party?
“Why doesn’t the brother-sister pair go and express horror in Hoshiarpur? Why not in Rajasthan? The selective cry of outrage that Congress wants to show when it is elsewhere, but not in the states governed by it, is completely exposed, “Sitharaman said. .
Stating that crimes like rape should not be politicized, he said certain political parties are selective in expressing their horror.
Another senior BJP leader and Union minister Prakash Javadekar He also criticized the two congressional leaders and asked why they had not yet visited the victim’s family in Punjab.
He accused Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi of conducting a “political tour” to Hathras, and questioned the lack of a similar reaction from the two leaders to the gruesome 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 by congressional leaders to Hathras.
“A six-year-old girl from a Dalit immigrant family in Bihar was raped and murdered in Tanda in Punjab. Former Union Minister Vijay Sampla from our party met with the family. No one from Congress met 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, either,” he told reporters. here.
Javadekar also claimed that the perpetrators of the rape and murder case in Punjab have not yet been arrested and demanded that strict measures be taken against them.
In a horrific incident, a six-year-old girl was allegedly raped, killed and then set on fire, and her half-burned body was found in a house in the village of Tanda in Jalalpur, police said Thursday.
The accused — Gurpreet Singh and his grandfather Surjit Singh, have been arrested on charges of murder, rape and under 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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