New Delhi, Sep 20 (UNI) Congress on Friday condemned the sexual assault of a woman lawyer and fiancee of an army officer in a police station in Odisha and said that women are not safe in BJP-ruled states.
“Women are not safe even inside the police stations of the BJP ruled states”, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate told a press conference here.
She said, it was a an irony that while the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had spoken of women empowerment in the same state, within 72 hours of his speech, a woman was being subjected to such brutal torture, which included sexual exploitation by some monstrous policemen inside the police station.
Questioning the BJP leaders’ silence, Prime Minister in particular, Shrinate said, they rightfully protested against the West Bengal rape and murder, but why they chose to remain quiet on Odisha incident.
She said that the Prime Minister is absolutely silent. The BJP don’t want to speak in Badlapur, they don’t want to speak in UP, in Bihar or any place that is controlled by the BJP.
Referring to the pin drop “stony silence” of the Women and Child Development Minister, she said, she rarely speaks rather she doesn’t speak. She also questioned the silence of the women MPs of the BJP and also that of the National Women’s Commission, which she observed, had just become a fontal organisation of the BJP.
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