Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met Hathras sufferer’s household on Saturday.
New Delhi:
A day after Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met the household of the Hathras sufferer, the occasion introduced it’s going to stage ”satyagraha” within the district headquarters of states throughout the nation on Monday to demand justice for them.
“The Pradesh Congress Committees will probably be organising silent Satyagraha sit-in, at Mahatma Gandhi/Ambedkar statues and every other place of significance, in opposition to the brutal and arbitrary actions of the UP Authorities, demanding justice for the sufferer and her household,” AICC common secretary, Organisation, KC Venugopal mentioned in a press release.
He mentioned senior leaders, MPs, MLAs, workplace bearers, occasion functionaries and bizarre staff will take part in full power within the ”satyagraha”.
“The brutal gang rape and homicide of a Dalit woman from Hathras in Uttar Pradesh has shaken the conscience of the nation,” Mr Venugopal mentioned.
He alleged that the “informal and cavalier perspective” in taking cognisance of her complaints and delay in offering her rapid medical consideration “smacks of makes an attempt at brushing underneath the carpet” in addition to “complicity” on a part of the UP administration.
Mr Venugopal alleged that the 20-year-old woman was denied justice and dignity in each life and dying, as her physique was cremated with out the consent of the household in the dark.
“The brazen inhumanity and unlawful excessive handedness proven by the BJP authorities of UP in denying fundamental dignity to the sufferer even in dying and afterwards in the direction of the household has left everybody past shock,” he mentioned.
The Congress chief additionally criticised the UP authorities for the occasions of October 1 when Rahul Gandhi and the occasion’s UP in-charge Priyanka Gandhi together with different leaders tried to go to Hathras to fulfill the sufferer’s household and the delegation was stopped on the UP border itself.
“Most convolutedly, the police manhandled Shri Rahul Gandhi in a most heinous approach and arrested Shri Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka ji and different leaders. The police brutally lathicharged on the Congress occasion staff and different occasion functionaries. The leaders weren’t solely forcibly stopped however FIR was additionally lodged in opposition to them,” he mentioned within the assertion.
He mentioned it was solely after continued stress from the Congress occasion on October three when 1000’s of occasion staff, MPs and senior leaders led by Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi introduced to depart for Hathras, that the UP administration relented and allowed 5 leaders to fulfill the sufferer’s household.
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