New Delhi:
Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was seen driving brother Rahul Gandhi as the 2 led a delegation of occasion MPs to Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras on Saturday afternoon to satisfy the household of the 20-year-old Dalit girl who died after she was assaulted and allegedly gang-raped.
Priyanka Gandhi was seen driving a silver Toyota Innova along with her brother Rahul Gandhi sitting subsequent to her. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor additionally posted an image of him driving a automotive and mentioned he was headed to Hathras, about 200 km from the nationwide capital.
A lot of policemen lined the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border with barricades on Delhi-Noida Direct (DND) flyway and stopped the Congress leaders on the border.
On Thursday, the Gandhis together with a number of occasion leaders and staff had been briefly arrested by the police and despatched again to Delhi, after they tried to go to Hathras to satisfy the household of the Dalit girl.
In a tweet in Hindi utilizing the hashtag ”HathrasHorror”, Rahul Gandhi mentioned the behaviour of the UP authorities and police with the girl and her household “is unacceptable to me. No Indian ought to settle for this.”
Mr Gandhi asserted that “no energy on this planet can cease me from assembly this grieving household in Hathras and share their ache”.
Lashing out on the Yogi Adityanath administration, Priyanka Gandhi mentioned the UP authorities is “morally corrupt”.
“The sufferer didn’t get therapy, her criticism was not registered on time, her physique was forcibly cremated, the household is in captivity, they’re being suppressed — now they’re being threatened that they must bear a narco check,” she mentioned in a tweet in Hindi.
“This behaviour shouldn’t be acceptable to the nation. Cease threatening the sufferer”s household,” she mentioned.
The occasion alleged that the girl and her household have been denied justice and “severely traumatised” by the BJP authorities of their try to cover the reality of the heinous crime perpetrated on her.
The Dalit girl was allegedly raped and tortured at a village in Hathras by 4 males from a so-called “higher caste” neighborhood on September 14. After her situation worsened, she was referred to the Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital the place she died on Tuesday.
She was cremated within the early hours of Wednesday by the policemen whereas her household was locked up of their houses. Even now, the police have laid a siege round their residence and the village to cease the media and politicians from visiting.
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