Every time victim is Dalit, poor: Rahul Gandhi
Congress leader demands probe into Ghazipur rape-murder
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has demanded a high-level investigation into the rape and murder of a girl of the Vishwakarma community in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur, and sought immediate justice.
According to Kashmir Media Service, in a post on X, Gandhi said the victim’s family faced threats and violence to stop them from filing an FIR.
“Hathras, Kathua, Unnao, and now Ghazipur—this is a pattern. Every time, the victim is Dalit, backward, tribal or poor,” he said in Hindi. He demanded action against guilty police officers, protection for the family, and said, “In a country and state where parents have to beg even to get an FIR filed for their daughter, that government has no moral right to remain in power.”
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also said atrocities against women in the state have reached their peak. “Be it Unnao, Hathras, Prayagraj, or Ghazipur—wherever women have faced injustice, the BJP has stood with the oppressor,” she said. A teenage girl’s body was found near a culvert in Katariya village in Karanda area of Ghazipur district on April 15, with her family alleging sexual assault and murder.
