Priyanka Gandhi attends prayer meet for Hathras victim at Delhi's Valmiki temple
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi today attended a prayer meet at the Maharishi Valmiki temple in Delhi organised amid nationwide outrage over the alleged rape and murder of a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras. Addressing a crowd, Priyanka said, "We will ensure justice for our sister. We won't sit quietly till she does not get justice." Priyanka and other Congress leaders, present at the prayer meet observed two-minute silence.
As outrage mounts and protests spread to several states, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today said the state government would "protect its mothers and sisters" and promised exemplary action against the four accused.
On Thursday, Priyanka and her brother Rahul Gandhi were briefly arrested as they tried to visit the village, around 200 km from Delhi, where the young woman was savagely attacked and then spent two weeks in hospital before dying. She was cremated hastily on Tuesday night by the police who feared growing protests.
The rape, murder and hurried cremation of a 20-year-old Dalit woman has triggered anger across India. With the Uttar Pradesh police in the eye of the storm yet again, judiciary has also stepped in as a nationwide outrage continues against the brutal crime, pointing fingers at the state of law in Uttar Pradesh.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Thursday cited a report aired on Aaj Ki Baat, an India TV programme anchored by Editor-in-Chief and Chairman Rajat Sharma, and issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over forcible cremation of the rape victim and other issues.
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