Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi will once again attempt to visit Hathras to meet the family of the rape victim. Ahead of the visit, Rahul Gandhi has said “no force can stop me” while Priyanka Gandhi has slammed the UP government and called it “morally corrupt”.
In a tweet, Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday morning, “No force in the world can stop me from going to Hathras and meet the victim’s family, share their grief.”
Rahul Gandhi also said, “I cannot tolerate the behaviour UP government has shown towards the Hathras victim and her family. No true Indian should tolerate this either.”
Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, a group of Congress MPs and supporters will be visiting Hathras even as the local administration has banned all media and politicians from entering the region by imposing Section 144.
Ahead of the visit, Priyanka Gandhi said, “The UP government is morally corrupt. The victim did not get proper treatment, they did not write her complaint on time, they burnt her body forcibly, the family is in captivity, they are being pressurized and now they are being threatened that there will be a narco test. This behavior is not acceptable to the country. Stop bullying the victim’s family.”
Earlier on Thursday, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi along with several party leaders and workers were detained by the police and sent back to Delhi, after they tried to reach Hathras to meet the family of the Dalit woman.
Congress has alleged that the woman and her family have been denied justice and “severely traumatised” by the BJP government in their attempt to hide the truth of the heinous crime perpetrated on her.
The Dalit woman was allegedly raped at a village in Hathras by four men on September 14. After her condition deteriorated, she was referred to the Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital where she breathed her last on Tuesday.
She was cremated in the early hours of Wednesday, with her family alleging the local police forced them to conduct the last rites in the dead of the night.