Manipur BJP protests Delhi gangrape

IMPHAL, Dec 1 – The BJP has ridiculed the Congress Government at the Centre for its abject failure to apprehend and penalise the accused in the recent case of a girl from Mizoram being gang-raped by a group of four criminals in Delhi.

The State Bharatiya Janata Party and its Mahila Morcha today staged a joint sit-in-protest at the BJP office, to register their outrage against the torture, violence and gang rape of women from the North East often in the streets of Delhi right under the nose of the law enforcing authority.

Slogans and placards registered that “Delhi Government failed to protect the chastity of NE women”, “Arrest the rapist and punish them”, etc. Similar protest was staged by BJP at Jantar Mantar in Delhi recently, protesting the rise of crime against North East women in Delhi.

The president of BJP, Manipur State unit, Sh Shantikumar said at the protest site that most of the gang rape victims in the national capital are almost always women from North East who are either students or employees, and asked a pertinent question as to why a city that claims to be a metropolis still grapples with the abject insecurity of women.

This is because the Delhi Government has not been able to empower women sufficiently and has not been able to ensure the security of women in the capital city, Shantikumar attempted to answer.

The Delhi Government and Congress-led Central Government have miserably failed to protect women against gang rapes and such like, particularly women from North East who have been at the receiving end during the past few years, the BJP leader said. “The culprits of previous cases of rapes have yet to be arrested and punished,” the BJP leader added.

Alleging that there seems to be no attempt on the part of the security agencies to come up with a policy to preempt further rapes from occurring, the BJP leader asked the Sheila Dixit Government in Delhi to step down on moral ground.

For the protection and rehabilitation of women from North East, the BJP has instituted an agency for women called “Sampark Cell” for women students and employees in Delhi. Family members who have their wards staying in Delhi must provide the cell with their phone numbers and addresses, the BJP leader added.