The chief minister must not relinquish his responsibility, says Priyanka Gandhi.
New Delhi:
After Hathras Police Superintendent and four other cops were suspended for the gangrap murder of a Dalit woman, Congresswoman Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked Friday what difference the suspension of “some pawns” would make and demanded the resignation of the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath.
The government of Uttar Pradesh has suspended Hathras SP Vikrant Vir and four other police officers over their handling of the gangrap murder case.
Tagging Mr. Adityanath in a Twitter post, Priyanka Gandhi asked what difference the suspension of “certain pawns” would make? “By whose orders Hathras’ victim, his family, was brought to suffer. The telephone records of Hathras DM and SP should be made public. The Chief Minister must not relinquish his responsibility.”
.@myogiadityanath TO RESIGN. You have no moral right to continue as the UP Chief Minister. pic.twitter.com/kZHqRcE6JI
– Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) October 2, 2020
“The country is watching, Chief Minister Adityanath submitting your resignation,” the Congress Secretary-General said in a Hindi tweet.
Besides Vikrant Vir, the other suspended police officers are Circle Officer Ramshabd, said Inspector Dinesh Kumar Verma, Deputy Inspector Jagveer Singh and Police Chief Mahesh Pal, Additional Secretary General (Home) Awanish Awasthi.
Four men reportedly raped a 19-year-old Dalit woman in a village in Hathras on September 14. After her condition deteriorated, she was referred to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi where she died on Tuesday.
She was cremated in the early hours of Wednesday, with her family claiming that local police forced them to hold the funeral in the middle of the night. But police said the cremation was done “according to the wishes of the family.”
