By Abdul Bari Masoud
New Delhi: Reacting to the BJP’s alleged attempts to communalize the Kathua rape and murder case in Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress Wednesday said the Modi government’ slogan Beti Bachao’ has now become a ‘cruel joke”. The party asked why the PDP-BJP governments in Jammu and Kashmir shied from ordering a CBI enquiry and arresting those who are accused. It demanded that 8 year, Asifa’s rapist and killers must be brought to book. The party also condemned the Jammu High Court Bar Association (JHBA)’s bandh in the Jammu region on Wednesday in support of various demands, including CBI probe into the rape and murder of the eight-year-old girl.
Addressing reporters here at the Party office, Congress communication department Chief Randeep Singh Surjewala said “rampant abuse of political power to influence and subvert legal process, and shield is the chief characteristic of the BJP which politically exploited Nirbhaya Rape Case is now outrightly brazening it out on the rape Cases in Kathua (J&K) and Unnao (UP).
Launching a blistering attack on the ruling party, Surjewala said exploiting the religion and caste of the rape victim, threatening her family, even killing her father is the new Modus Operandi of the Vigilante Groups mushrooming under the patronage of the BJP.
In response to a question on the bandh called by JHBA, the Congress leader said the party had condemned the lawyers’ protest, alleging that Monday’s protests were part of a well-thought-out conspiracy to polarize communities in Jammu and Kashmir by giving a criminal act a communal colour.
“In Jammu Bandh, I have spoken to my colleague Shri Ravinder Sharma there. Congress Party has clearly said justice must be secured for the victim of the Kathua rape case. She must be protected and provided all help possible and the entire people of Jammu have supported this stance of Congress Party with the exceptions of a few individuals who I will not like to name of different other parties. People have also demanded a CBI enquiry,” he added.
Why BJP Governments in J&K shy of ordering a CBI enquiry and arresting those who are accused. Why are they trying to divert attention from complete diversionary tactics? He asked.
He underlined that in the BJP ruled states, incidents of rape, molestation and attack against women are highest – be it UP, be it Madhya Pradesh, be it Maharashtra, be it Rajasthan and be in Gujarat.
The Congress leader took a dig at the BJP government slogan of ‘BetiBachao’ saying it has now become ‘Beti Ke Pita Ko Bhi Marwao’ !
‘Bahut Hua Naari Par Vaar..’ is now a Cruel Joke on the Women of India’
‘Justice for Women in BJP ruled states has become a mirage because BJP’s eco-system is influencing the legal process by building a False Narrative’, he added.
It is squarely replicating the ‘Naliya Rape Model’ where BJP leaders drugged, raped and blackmailed the victim in a sex racket in Kutch, Gujarat, Surjewala alleged.
BJPRSS’s beti bachao means Brahman ki beti bachao. That is Manu Smriti. Do you not see beti of muslims and dalits raped every day in this RAM RAJ? These animals must be thrown out of power.