Struggle in MP
As the electoral battlefield heats up in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress finds itself locked in an uphill struggle against the formidable might of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Even as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is being cornered over the Unnao rape case, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday referred to rape-murder case of a Kathua girl, saying “criminals of such horrific acts can’t go unpunished”.
The Gandhi scion took to Twitter, referring to the rape and murder of an 8-year-old Kathua girl, saying “it was a crime against humanity”.
He tweeted: “How can anyone protect the culprits of such evil?
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What happened to — at #Kathua is a crime against humanity. It cannot go unpunished.
What have we become if we allow politics to interfere with such unimaginable brutality perpetrated on an innocent child?”
Earlier in the day, the Congress had attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his silence over the alleged Unnao rape case and questioned why the accused BJP MLA was yet to be arrested.
Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal alleged that PM Modi was not serious about checking crimes against women across the country and asked him to observe fast over rape incidents and register his protest against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the Unnao rape case.
In Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, an 8-year-old was drugged, gang-raped and brutally murdered in January 2018. The minor girl was reportedly held in captivity for a week by the accused in a small village temple in Kathua district. She was kept sedated and sexually assaulted once again before she was bludgeoned to death.
In Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao, another young girl alleged that she was raped by Kuldeep Singh Sengar, an MLA of the ruling BJP, and his brothers. She is battling for justice, while the accused are roaming free.
An FIR has been registered against Sengar at Makhi police station in Unnao under several sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the POCSO Act.
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