Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday arrived at Boolgarhi village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras and met the family of the 2020 gangrape victim. The 19-year-old was allegedly gangraped on September 14, 2020. She died on September 29, 2020, while undergoing treatment in Delhi. The family of the victim had alleged that the police had forced them to conduct the last rites in the dead of the night, however, police officials had denied any such claims.
In 2020, Rahul Gandhi met the family and also accused the Yogi Adityanath government of 'exploitation' and unleashing 'atrocities' on the victim's family.
Visuals from the village showed heightened security arrangements before his visit.
BJP's reaction to Rahul Gandhi's Hathras visit:
Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak speaking on the Congress MP's visit to Hathras said that he was doing so to incite the people and called him a 'victim of frustration'.
"Rahul Gandhi, you have a feeling of despair, you are a victim of frustration. You do not even know that the CBI has investigated the Hathras case. The case is going on in the court, today Uttar Pradesh is moving ahead rapidly to become the number one state in terms of infrastructure, in terms of law and order. The law and order of Uttar Pradesh is discussed in the whole nation. Today we can say that the industrial revolution is coming in Uttar Pradesh. Whereas you want to throw Uttar Pradesh into the fire of anarchy, in the fire of riots, you want to incite people. Please do not do this, I request."
In the same vein, BJP Leader Baldev Singh Aulakh asked Rahul Gandhi why he needed to instigate the situation there now when the Hathras issue has been closed by CBI. “Till Yogi Adityanatha is the CM, Rahul Gandhi taking trips to UP is not going to make a difference, they have never apologized for the atrocities enabled against Sikhs by their family.”
