Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will soon take on the Uttar Pradesh government over deteriorating law and order in the state and expose the failure of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to ensure safety especially of girls and women.
The Congress general secretary, who arrived in Lucknow on Friday on a two-day visit, said the law enforcing agencies should enforce the rule of the law strictly.
“(Yogi) Adityanath should ensure an emergency-like situation so far attacks on women are concerned and he should immediately set up a camp in his office and ask all district police chiefs to inform this cell within 24 hours if any rape case is reported,” Priyanka said, adding that at present UP topped the list in attacks on women. She gave the example of Unnao where she said 90 rapes were reported in last 11 months but the government was either sleeping or giving patronage to the accused.
On making more stringent law, Priyanka said that the law was already there after the Nirbhaya incident but the governments were not implementing it.
“In the recent Unnao case, the FIR was registered four months after the rape, that too on the intervention of the court”, she pointed out.
The Congress leader said earlier too, the state government shielded a rape accused and only when the entire family of the rape victim was eliminated and she too was attacked, the Yogi Adityanath government reacted, again on the apex court’s intervention.
On the Hyderabad encounter, Priyanka refused to make any comment, saying she did not have full details. She, however, said that all governments should implement the rule of law.
During her Lucknow visit, Priyanka will review the party’s preparations after a new team was appointed for the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
This is Priyanka’s first visit to UP after a new team headed by UPCC chief Ajay Kumar Lallu was given the responsibility of the state.
Besides taking part in organisational meetings, she will also review the preparations for the Bharat Bachao Rally, to be organised in New Delhi on December 14.