Cong questions PM’s ‘silence’ on Dalit lady case, alleges government drive in the back of Twitter motion in opposition to Rahul Gandhi’s account
The Congress on Sunday demanded that High Minister Narendra Modi spoil his ‘silence’ at the alleged rape and homicide of the nine-year-old Dalit lady in Delhi and supply fast justice to her circle of relatives.
The opposition party additionally alleged that Twitter acted in haste because of ‘drive’ from the Indian executive and was once ‘selective’ in eliminating Rahul Gandhi’s tweet and ‘postponing’ his account for placing up photos of the sufferer’s circle of relatives as no motion was once taken in opposition to every other handles which carried the similar photos.
‘To Twitter, I might say, ‘daro mat’ (don’t be afraid),’ Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate mentioned.
‘It is a step taken in haste. We’re extremely enraged with what has took place. It’s extremely selective. Anyone who stands with the circle of relatives searching for justice, you drop his tweet and block his Twitter account,’ she mentioned.
Addressing a joint press convention, Shrinate and Ragini Nayak accused the federal government of now not offering succour and improve to the sufferer’s circle of relatives.
Delhi Congress chief Alka Lamba demanded that there will have to be a dialogue on girls’s security and safety in Parliament all through the Monsoon consultation and an afternoon will have to be devoted against this motive.
To @TwitterIndia we are saying, “Daro Mat”. #मैं_भी_Rahul pic.twitter.com/6IXnpkCyfo
— Congress (@INCIndia) August 8, 2021
Delhi Mahila Congress leader Amrita Dhawan demanded time-bound justice supply and the loss of life penalty to the culprits inside of six months.
She claimed that had Rahul Gandhi now not raised the problem, the crime would were ‘brushed below the carpet’.
Wondering the top minister and residential minister’s ‘silence’, Shrinate mentioned this sort of main crime has taken position within the nationwide capital however now not a phrase has come from the federal government.
‘Why is the top minister silent, why is the house minister silent. It’s our call for that Modi ji will have to spoil his silence at the Delhi incident,’ she advised newshounds.
‘It’s unlucky that the person who extends improve to the circle of relatives of the sufferer is being attacked. The BJP is indulging in ‘rape as opposed to rape’ politics. This isn’t a topic of Congress as opposed to BJP, it issues the security and safety of girls within the nation,’ she mentioned, asking whether or not the problem does now not hassle the 11 girls ministers within the Modi executive.
After Rahul Gandhi had met the sufferer’s circle of relatives, the BJP had puzzled his silence on rape instances in Congress-ruled states.
Congress leader spokesperson Randeep Surjewala claimed that BJP individuals and NCSC individuals too had submit photos of the sufferer’s folks on Twitter.
‘Wah Modi ji, when the Nationwide Fee for Scheduled Castes on August 2 places up the images in their assembly with the fogeys of the sufferer on Twitter, it’s proper.
‘When a former MP and NCSC Fee member places up pictures of the sufferer’s folks on August 3, it’s proper. And if Rahul Gandhi ji seeks justice for his or her daughter, then this can be a crime,’ Surjewala mentioned within the tweet in Hindi.
वाह मोदी जी,
2 अगस्त को राष्ट्रीय अनुसूचित जाति आयोग दिल्ली की अबोध बेटी से मुलाक़ात कर माँ-बाप की फ़ोटो #twitter पर लगाए, तो सही।
भाजपा की पूर्व सांसद व SC आयोग की मेम्बर Three अगस्त को माँ-बाप की फ़ोटो #Twitter पर लगाए, तो ठीक।
और राहुल गाँधी जी बेटी के लिए न्याय माँगे तो अपराध! pic.twitter.com/T6SFpxgbHM
— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) August 8, 2021
Shrinate and Nayak alleged that the Nationwide Fee for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) chairman Vijay Sampla and member Anju Bala visited the sufferer’s circle of relatives on August 2 and so they shared the images of the circle of relatives on August 2 and three, however no motion was once taken in opposition to them.
Nayak alleged that the Modi executive ‘is the usage of its power to suppress girls’ as an alternative of offering them safety.
‘Why is it that once Rahul Gandhi raises the problem, the federal government makes use of its power to get his tweet deleted. Why do you worry Rahul Gandhi such a lot? If the Modi executive feels we can be stopped from elevating this factor through getting a tweet deleted, it’s fallacious,’ Nayak mentioned.
The Congress had on Saturday claimed that Twitter has ‘briefly suspended’ the account of its former leader Rahul Gandhi, however later mentioned it’s been ‘briefly locked’ after the microblogging platform denied having suspended the account and mentioned that it remains to be in provider.
The motion through Twitter came around a arguable submit of Gandhi with an image of him assembly the circle of relatives of the Dalit lady who died right here following an alleged grownup attack. Twitter has deemed that the account violated its laws in opposition to posting personal knowledge.
