The Opposition on Thursday got here down closely on the BJP authorities in Uttar Pradesh over the heckling of nuns from Kerala who have been compelled off a prepare by Railway personnel and a few fellow passengers, recognized as ABVP employees, who falsely accused them of partaking in compelled spiritual conversion. The incident occurred at Jhansi station on March 19.
While Union Home Minister Amit Shah, campaigning for the BJP in Kerala, promised motion, Congress normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stated Shah’s remarks have been “hollow statements” made in a poll-bound state.
“And now that there is an election in Kerala, Home Minister Amit Shah is busy giving hollow statements about protecting nuns from harassment,”she tweeted tagging Shah.
She additionally posted a tweet in a question-answer format, hitting out on the BJP and RSS college students’ wing — ABVP.
“Which political get together runs the federal government that permits these goons to harass and demand private particulars of younger girls commuting on a prepare? BJP
Which political get together do these goons belong to? BJP
Which get together’s scholar wing are among the members of? BJP,” she wrote in one other tweet and uploaded the video of the incident.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi additionally slammed the BJP for the incident and blamed it on the “vicious propaganda” of “Sangh Parivar”.
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“The attack in UP on nuns from Kerala is a result of the vicious propaganda run by the Sangh Parivar to pitch one community against another and trample the minorities. Time for us as a nation to introspect and take corrective steps to defeat such divisive forces,” Rahul additionally tweeted.
BSP chief Mayawati known as the incident “most condemnable” and “shameful”, saying there isn’t any management on crime towards girls in Uttar Pradesh.
“In Uttar Pradesh, serious crimes, especially related to the security of women, are not stopping. This is very sad and a matter of concern),” Mayawati tweeted, referring to the alleged incident of crimes towards girls in Pilibhit, Gonda and Etah.
“Incidents like these and in Jhansi were nuns from Kerala were asked to get down from the train are shameful and most condemnable,” she added.
Addressing a rally in Kerala’s Kanjirappally, which has a sizeable Christian inhabitants and the place former Union minister Okay J Alphons is the BJP candidate within the Assembly polls on April 6, Shah stated his get together’s “government in Uttar Pradesh will ensure that the culprits…will be brought to justice”.
