Hathras case: Sonia Gandhi said: “There was an attempt to cover up the case”
Strong points
- Sonia Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the UP government over rape case
- She said the ignorance of the UP government killed “Nirbhaya of Hathras”
- Priyanka Gandhi asked for the resignation of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
New Delhi:
Congresswoman Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Yogi Adityanath’s government in Uttar Pradesh for the brutal torture and gangrapy of a 20-year-old girl in Hathras, claiming she was “killed by a ruthless government “which tried to” shut up the question “. The state has come under huge criticism and public anger has escalated over the affair, which has a strong caste angle.
The woman, a member of the Listed Castes, died Tuesday in a Delhi hospital after fighting for her life for two weeks. Half-strangled, with multiple fractures, her tongue cut, bare, bleeding and paralyzed, she was left for dead in a field where she had gone to cut grass for fodder on the morning of September 19.
His body was cremated by Uttar Pradesh police in the middle of the night. Her grieving family has been kept locked up despite their appeals.
In a video statement posted on the official Congress Twitter account tonight, Sonia Gandhi said: “An attempt was made to cover up the case. The girl was not treated in a timely manner and one girl is no longer among us. I want to say that Nirbhaya of Hathras is not dead, she was killed – by a ruthless government, by her administration and by the ignorance of the UP government. “
“During her lifetime, she was not heard, she was not protected and after her death she was deprived of her home. She was not returned to her family and a crying mother didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye to her. It is a great sin, ”Ms. Gandhi said.
Accusing state police of “forced” cremation, she said the young woman was deprived of dignity even after her death and “cremated like an orphan”.
“What kind of justice is it? What kind of government is it? Do you think you can do anything and the country will continue to seek? No, the country will speak out against your injustice,” he said. Ms. Gandhi said.
Ms Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and son Rahul Gandhi have previously tweeted about the issue, tearing the state government apart.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has called for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to resign from his post. “Instead of protecting the victim and her family, your government has become complicit in depriving her of all human rights, even in the event of death. You have no moral right to continue as chief minister.” , she tweeted.
“All of this is a shameful measure by the UP government to suppress Dalits and show them their ‘place’ in society. Our fight is against this hateful thought,” Rahul Gandhi said in a Hindi tweet.
