Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadras on Wednesday attacked the Uttar Pradesh government over the law and order situation in the state.
Their comments come in the backdrop of a 50-year-old man being shot dead in Hathras district allegedly by a man accused of molesting the victim's daughter.
Every type of crime is at its peak in Uttar Pradesh and there is a very bad state of crime control, Mayawati charged. "Everyone is concerned about painful and embarrassing incidents of dalit and women harassment. Even in such serious cases, the insensitivity and negligence of government is unfortunate," Mayawati, a former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, said in a tweet in Hindi.
She also targeted the BJP government at the Centre over the issue of dalit rights. "Dalit oppression and murder of a man in Hathras and ruthless killing of a dalit RTI activist in Gujarat prove that lives of dalits, oppressed and women are not safe under the BJP government like in previous Congress regime. The government should immediately take notice of this," she added.
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In addition to the Hathras incident, Priyanka also referred to the exhumation of a 12-year-old girl's body from a pit in a man's house in Bulandshahr. "The father of a girl who did not take back a case of molestation was murdered in Hathras. The body of a girl, who had been missing for several days in Bulandshahr, was found buried in a house," Priyanka Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.
"Contrary to the UP government's false propaganda on crime, everyday one family or the other is screaming for justice," she said.
