Why is the Congress silent on Punjab rape: Nirmala Sitharaman

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday questioned the Congress’s silence over the alleged rape and homicide of a six-year previous Dalit lady in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur this week whereas hitting out on the celebration’s “selective outrage” over crimes towards girls. The lady’s household is from Bihar.

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman mentioned rape and crimes towards girls can’t be linked to politics. She questioned whether or not Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who visited the household of the 19-year-old Dalit lady allegedly raped and murdered in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras to hunt justice for her, will accomplish that for the lady in Punjab, the place the Congress is in energy.

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“No rape should be politicised; it is despicable that rapes happen and justice is delayed in some cases. And all political parties together will have to make sure that the system responds and justice is served in time. But because we want our political games to be played, we are selective about voicing horror when it is in some states and remain in complete silence when it is in state’s governed by Congress,” she mentioned.

She mentioned it’s unlucky that the demand for justice that was raised within the BJP-ruled state is lacking in relation to circumstances from Congress-ruled Rajasthan and Punjab.

“The pretentious Congress has not said a word. The tweet-friendly Rahul Gandhi has not tweeted on the Hoshiarpur incident. There is been no outrage; no picnic either.”

The BJP chief additionally questioned the silence of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) over the incident. “Did [RJD leader] Tejwasvi Yadav, who campaigned [for the Bihar election] with Gandhi not ask why he is silent. That child was from Bihar. Is RJD not answerable to that family,” she mentioned.

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Criticising the RJD for not talking up for ladies’s security, she mentioned, the celebration’s leaders have a poor monitor file. Citing a media report from January 2, 2008, she mentioned, “In 2008, there were allegations against the RJD brothers for eve-teasing in Delhi so it does not affect them. During the jungle raj in Bihar, we know what the situation of law and order was; senior officials’ wives were not spared.”

Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh hit out at BJP leaders Nirmala Sitharaman and Prakash Javadekar for his or her feedback over the Hoshiarpur rape-murder case, dubbing their remarks as “political puffery” with no substance or foundation to help their criticism.

Singh rejected the BJP’s assault on his authorities in addition to the Gandhis. Amarinder Singh mentioned opposite to what these leaders have been claiming, there was no comparability between the Hoshiarpur and the Hathras case. He identified that within the Hathras case, the Uttar Pradesh authorities and police “did not only fail” to provoke stern motion however actually was seemingly “trying to cover up” the matter to profit the upper-caste accused.

This, he mentioned, was in sharp distinction to the immediate motion taken by the Punjab Police, who instantly arrested the accused and is now making ready to file the challan inside per week.

The BJP authorities in Uttar Pradesh confronted a lot criticism after the Hathras lady was cremated within the useless of the night time with out her household’s approval.

Members of Parliament (MPs) from a number of events, together with the Congress and the Trinamool Congress have been manhandled by the police once they tried to go to the lady’s household in Hathras.

Referring to the MPs’ statements in regards to the Hathras incident, the minister mentioned, “The BJP stands with all those who want to give justice to the family in Hoshiarpur. When there was something in Hathras, 35 senior MPs of the party [Congress] from all over the country made statements on Twitter and wanted to go marching to Hathras asking for justice. Where are those 35 today?”

The minister mentioned whereas the BJP authorities is accused of clamping down on freedom of expression, incidents of police motion towards journalists are being reported from the Congress-ruled states of Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.

“Many derogatory remarks were made about the PM [Prime Minister Narendra Modi] and the [Union] home minister [Amit Shah], has there been any action… There is so much being said about freedom of expression being under threat but it is only in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. The Congress DNA is to suppress freedom of expression.”

Reacting to Sitharaman’s remarks, RJD spokesperson Mritunjay Tiwary mentioned, “The RJD is sensitive to women issues. After all whose rule is there? Is Tejashwi Yadav responsible for everything? It seems BJP do not have any issue to highlight and they are trying to drag his name in anything. People of Bihar will teach them a lesson.”

(With inputs from company)