Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was seen leading her brother Rahul Gandhi.
New Delhi:
Congressional leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was seen leading her brother Rahul Gandhi as the two led a delegation of party MPs to Hathras from Uttar Pradesh on Saturday afternoon to meet with the family of the 20-year-old Dalit woman who died after being attacked and allegedly a gang member. raped.
Priyanka Gandhi was seen driving a silver Toyota Innova with her brother Rahul Gandhi sitting next to her. The congressional deputy, Shashi Tharoor, also posted a photo of him driving a car and said he was heading to Hathras, about 200 km from the national capital.
Large numbers of policemen lined the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border with barricades on the Delhi-Noida Direct (DND) airway and detained congressional leaders at the border. Eventually they allowed the two leaders of Congress and three others to move on.
On Thursday, the Gandhis along with several party leaders and workers were briefly arrested by the police and sent back to Delhi after they tried to visit Hathras to meet with the Dalit woman’s family.
In a tweet in Hindi with the hashtag “HathrasHorror”, Rahul Gandhi said that the behavior of the UP government and police towards the woman and her family “is unacceptable to me. No Indian should accept this.”
Mr. Gandhi stated that “no power in the world can prevent me from meeting this grieving family in Hathras and sharing their pain.”
Priyanka Gandhi, who lashed out at the Yogi Adityanath administration, said that the UP government is “morally corrupt.”
“The victim did not receive treatment, his complaint was not registered on time, his body was forcibly cremated, the family is in captivity, they are being repressed, now they are threatened that they will have to undergo a drug test,” he added. she said in a tweet in Hindi.
“This behavior is not acceptable to the country. Stop threatening the victim’s family,” he said.
The party alleged that the woman and her family were denied justice and the BJP government “severely traumatized” them in its attempt to conceal the truth of the heinous crime perpetrated against her.
The Dalit woman was allegedly raped and tortured in a village in Hathras by four men from a so-called “upper caste” community on 14 September. After her condition worsened, she was referred to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, where she died on Tuesday.
She was cremated in the early hours of Wednesday by police officers while her family was locked in their homes. Even now, the police have set up a site around their house and town to prevent the media and politicians from visiting them.
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