The Union Minister’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday targeted Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for the rape and murder of a six-year-old Dalit girl in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab and charged the leaders of the Congress to visit “any other place that can help them politically. “
“A six-year-old son of a Dalit migrant worker from Bihar is raped, murdered and his body half burned in Hoshiarpur and that does not move the conscience of the brothers who rush to go anywhere else that can help them politically,” said the BJP leader on crime in the state ruled by Congress.
Sitharaman was referring to the visit by congressional leaders to the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh earlier this month amid great drama following the death of a 19-year-old Dalit rape victim. Rahul and Priyanka met with the victim’s relatives and assured them of their full support so that justice was done for their daughter. They also criticized the state administration for its handling of the case.
The Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar, also criticized congressional leaders, including the party’s national president, Sonia Gandhi, for failing to visit the grieving family in Hoshiarpur. He called the visit of the grand party delegation to the Uttar Pradesh village a “photo shoot.” He said: “They pay no attention to the injustice committed against women in the states ruled by their party, but they visit Hathras and other places to take pictures with the victim’s family.”
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In an apparent reference to Gandhi’s rallies in Bihar, subject to the ballot box, Javadekar said: “Instead of going on political tours, Rahul Gandhi should visit Tanda and Rajasthan and learn about incidents of crimes against women. The minister demanded strict action against the culprits.
A man and his grandfather were arrested for raping and setting the six-year-old girl on fire, a day after her half-burned body was recovered from her home in Tanda’s Jalalpur village, police said Thursday. The arrests were made 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).
The victim’s father has alleged that Gurpreet Singh took the girl to his home where he allegedly raped her and that he and her grandfather Surjit Singh allegedly killed her and burned her body. The girl’s half-burned body was found in her home, police said.
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