Congress shows “selective outrage” in cases of crimes against girls, says Nirmala Sitharaman
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The BJP on Saturday accused the Congress of using “selective outrage” in cases of crimes against girls, questioning the silence of Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra over the alleged rape and homicide of a six-year-old woman in Punjab.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, at a presser on the BJP’s nationwide headquarters in New Delhi, additionally took a swipe at Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Tejashwi Yadav, questioning if he had requested Mr. Gandhi in regards to the situation whereas holding a joint ballot marketing campaign with him in the State. She additionally famous that the kid hailed from the Dalit group.
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Attacking Mr. Yadav, she referred to a information report of 2008 to say the “allegations of eve-teasing and misbehaviour with women against the RJD brothers”, a reference to him and his elder brother Tej Pratap.
“It [the Punjab incident] may not hurt the RJD because that is how things were when they were in power,” Ms. Sitharaman stated including that the RJD presided over “Jungle Raj“ during its rule between 1990-2005.
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Hitting out at the Congress, she said, “The pretentious Congress has not said a word. The tweet-friendly Rahul Gandhi has not tweeted on the Hoshiarpur incident. There has been no outrage. And no picnic either.”
Her ‘picnic’ jibe was in reference to Mr. Gandhi and Ms. Gandhi’s go to to Hathras in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh following the alleged gangrape of a Dalit woman, who died in a Delhi hospital subsequently.
“The Congress party should stand up and answer. Does this kind of selective outrage suit the stature of their party? Why is the brother-sister pair not going and voicing horror in Hoshiarpur? Why not in Rajasthan? The selective cry of outrage that the Congress wants to show when it is elsewhere but not in States governed by it is completely exposed,” Ms. Sitharaman stated.
Stating that crimes like rape shouldn’t be politicised, she stated sure political events are selective in voicing horror.
In a horrifying incident, a six-year-old woman was allegedly raped, killed after which set on fireplace, together with her half-burnt physique discovered at a house in Tanda’s Jalalpur village, police stated on Thursday.
The accused — Gurpreet Singh and his grandfather Surjit Singh — have been arrested on the costs of homicide, rape and underneath different Sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, they stated.
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