Like millions of Indians my heart hurts tonight. India simply cannot continue to treat its women the way it does, he tweeted.
Rahul Gandhi reaches for the candlelight march at India Gate against Kathua and Unnao cases.
New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi lead a midnight candlelight vigil at India Gate in New Delhi to demand justice for 8-year old Asifa, raped and murdered in Jammu and Kashmir, and another teenage rape victim in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh.
Along with senior party leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad, his mother Sonia Gandhi and sister Priyanka Vadra have also took part in the candlelight vigil.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra & Robert Vadra arrive for the candlelight march at India Gate against Kathua & Unnao cases. #Delhi pic.twitter.com/Gn1CKVq5jb— ANI (@ANI) April 12, 2018
Rahul Gandhi reaches for the candlelight march at India Gate against Kathua and Unnao cases. #Delhi pic.twitter.com/U53vuw3Xbu— ANI (@ANI) April 12, 2018
The govt is sleeping & so at this time Congress will have to wake them up. PM had given a slogan ‘Beti Padhao, Beti Bachao’ & it’s in his regime that our girls are being raped. He isn’t taking action against his ministers who are trying to save the rape accused: Ghulam Nabi Azad pic.twitter.com/PtfZkFlbSB— ANI (@ANI) April 12, 2018
Earlier, Rahul Gandhi had called people to join him in a silent, peaceful march to protest against the violence and demand justice in the cases that shook the nation, in a tweet.
Like millions of Indians my heart hurts tonight. India simply cannot continue to treat its women the way it does, he tweeted.
Like millions of Indians my heart hurts tonight. India simply cannot continue to treat its women the way it does.
Join me in a silent, peaceful, candlelight vigil at India Gate at midnight tonight to protest this violence and demand justice.— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 12, 2018
How can anyone protect the culprits of such evil?
What happened to Asifa at #Kathua is a crime against humanity. It cannot go unpunished.
What have we become if we allow politics to interfere with such unimaginable brutality perpetrated on an innocent child?— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 12, 2018