After Hathras, Mamata Banerjee Accuses BJP Of Using Dalits Only For Votes

Kolkata:

Hitting out on the Uttar Pradesh govt for its dealing with of the alleged rape and homicide of a 20-year-old lady from Hathras and for “forceful cremation” of her frame with out her circle of relatives’s consent, West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee lately accused the BJP of the use of the Dalit group for votes after which torturing them.

Hours after tweeting concerning the “barbaric and shameful incident” that has precipitated outrage around the nation, Ms Banerjee – getting ready to battle subsequent 12 months’s state Meeting elections with BJP as the primary opponent – additionally attacked the birthday party, even if now not by way of identify.

“Throughout elections, they’ll move to a Dalit space, get meals from out of doors, devour it and declare now we have eaten at a Dalit house. After elections, they’ll torture Dalits, thrash them,” she stated at a public match at Jalpaiguri in north Bengal.

Ms Banerjee even invoked Goddess Sita, the spouse of Lord Ram, in her outburst in opposition to the Yogi Adityanath govt and the state police. “Sita Mai needed to give agnipariksha (trial by way of fire) as soon as. Nowadays, in Uttar Pradesh, now not handiest is there rape, the sufferer is burnt,” she stated.

“If there’s a crime, police must take motion instantly. We’ve taken motion in 72 hours. In Uttar Pradesh, now not handiest is there rape, the sufferer is burnt; no motion is taken. What sort of governance is that this?” Ms Banerjee puzzled, alleging that some leaders reportedly even stated the sufferer and her mom must had been burnt at the similar pyre.

Previous within the day, Ms Banerjee had tweeted announcing, “I haven’t any phrases to sentence the barbaric and shameful incident at Hathras involving a tender Dalit lady. My inner most condolences to the circle of relatives. Extra shameful is the forceful cremation, exposing those that use slogans and lofty guarantees for votes.”

A 20-year-old Dalit lady used to be allegedly raped by way of 4 males – all of whom are from a so-called higher caste – in Hathras on September 14. She used to be referred to the Safdarjung clinic in Delhi with spinal twine accidents, paralysis and cuts in her tongue. She died on Tuesday.

The Uttar Pradesh Police has confronted spiraling complaint for over alleged delays in submitting a rape case, arresting the accused and cremating the Hathras lady close to her village at midnight in opposition to her circle of relatives’s needs, along with her oldsters and brothers locked of their house.