Priyanka Gandhi calls UP gov ‘jungle raj’, says being woman in the state has become crime

Congress party leader Priyanka Gandhi criticized the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, condemning the rise in crimes against women. 

Highlighting the recent tragic Kanpur incident where two minor girls were allegedly gangraped and committed suicide, Priyanka questioned as to where women must go for justice in Uttar Pradesh.

Taking to twitter, Priyanka in a post wrote,” Two minor girls, victims of gang rape, committed suicide in Kanpur. Now the father of those girls has also committed suicide. It is alleged that pressure was being put on the victim's family to compromise.”

“In Uttar Pradesh, if victimized girls and women ask for justice, it has become a rule to destroy their families,” she said in the post written in Hindi.

Priyanka also invoked the past incidents of rape in the state and said that there is no law left in the state. “From Unnao, Hathras to Kanpur – wherever women were tortured, their families were destroyed. Being a woman has become a crime in this jungle raj where there is no such thing as law left,” she added.

Two girls were found hanging from a tree in a field near the brick kiln they were working in Kanpur in a village in the Ghatampur area last month -- days after they were allegedly raped.

Family members have alleged that the minor girls were raped a few days ago by the contractor of the brick kiln, Ramroop Nishad, (48), his son Raju (18) and nephew Sanjay (19), Additional CP (law and order) Harish Chandra had said. All three accused had been arrested, he said.

According to the families, the accused had also made a video of the act to blackmail the girls -- 16 and 14 years of age -- due to which they took the extreme step.

(with inputs from PTI)