The BJP on Friday hit out at the Congress and its former chief Rahul Gandhi alleging that they were looking for ‘photo-op’ and resorting to ‘theatrics’ around the unfortunate death of the Hathras victim in Uttar Pradesh to ‘revive’ their political careers.
Rahul, her sister and General Secretary in-charge of UP Priyanka Vadra and Congress workers were stopped by UP police on Friday on the expressway when they were attempting to march to Hathras to meet the family of the brutalised rape victim who passed away here and later cremated in the wee hours by the police allegedly ‘illegally’ without the consent and in absence of her family members.
With Congress seeking the resignation of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for the deteriorating law and order in the State, the BJP retorted saying a dying Congress is using drama to prop up its dipping graph.
“Congress and Rahul Gandhi have reduced the unfortunate death of a young woman into theatrics, an occasion to resurrect their political careers”, said BJP leader and head of party’s IT cell Amit Malviya.
“The insincerity is gut-wrenching. Crime against women and Dalits, in particular, is rampant in Rajasthan but politics takes them to UP,” Malviya said in a tweet.
The BJP leader criticised the Congress for offering ‘sympathy’ on the basis of ‘social and religious identity of the violator or the State’.
“When your sympathy for the victim depends on the social and religious identity of the violator or the state in which the crime happens, then you are part of the problem. Those obsessing about the identity of the accused in Hathras are silent on Balrampur and Bulandshahr,” Malviya said.
BJP leader and UP Minister Siddhartha Nath Singh claimed that Congress leaders were looking for the ‘photo-op’ rather than having real sympathy for the victim.