Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met with the Hathras woman’s family on Saturday.
New Delhi:
Congressman Rahul Gandhi on Sunday lashed out at a BJP MLA who said rapes can only be stopped if parents teach ‘sanskar‘or values his daughters amid national outrage over the alleged gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old woman in Hathras of Uttar Pradesh.
“This is the dirty macho mentality of RSS at work. Men rape, but women need to be taught good values,” she said, commenting on BJP leader Surendra Singh’s comment on Twitter. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS is the ideological mentor of the BJP ruling UP and in the center.
With his party’s government coming under heavy criticism for the savage assault on women and the administration’s actions since then, the BJP leader had said: “It is the duty of all mothers and fathers to instill good values in their daughters and raise them in cultured environments. “
“I am a teacher as well as being an MLA. Such incidents (such as rape) can be stopped only with sanskar, not with shasan (governance) or talwar (referring to sword or power),” Surendra Singh said on Saturday, when asked. asked about crimes against women in the state.
The 20-year-old woman, from the long-oppressed Dalit community, was attacked on 14 September in a field near her home in the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh, allegedly by a group of so-called “upper caste” men. . Her death on Tuesday sparked protests across the country.
Four suspects were soon arrested, but Yogi Adityanath’s government faced criticism for forcibly cremating the woman’s body that same night at 2:30 a.m. in a dark field while her parents were locked up in an apparent effort to stem a backlash. violent
Congress has criticized the BJP for the incident with Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, also a leader of Congress, visiting the family on Saturday night after a dramatic confrontation with police officers who had set up a siege in the area, blocking politicians and the media.
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