Over 30 workers of Gujarat Congress were detained by police on Wednesday as they staged a protest outside the residence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s brother Pankaj Modi near State Capital Gandhinagar where their nonagenarian mother Hira Ba is also staying.
The Congress workers were protesting over an issue of sexual exploitation of a woman by local BJP workers in Kutch district. As many as four BJP leaders are allegedly involved in the racket, according to the Congress workers. In her FIR, the 24-year-old woman victim alleged that she was raped by at least nine people on different occasions a year ago.
Police said that the Congress workers assembled near Pankaj Modi’s residence situated in Raysan village outside Gandhinagar unannounced. However, the cops reached within few minutes of the protest and detained all of them, said a police official, adding that majority of the workers were females.
The Congress workers demanded intervention of PM Modi’s mother to punish those involved in the sexual exploitation of the married woman in Nalia town of bordering Kutch district.