Alka Lamba slams BJP-ruled states over rising crimes against women, alleges protection for culprits
Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here, All India Mahila Congress president Alka Laamba expressed grief over the death of a 15 year old girl from Odisha, who was set afire by three people.
She alleged that the police had initially given clean chit to the accused saying they did not have any role. The girl died in the AIIMS Delhi after struggling for life for several days.
Lamba cited several cases from BJP-ruled states where, she claimed, crimes against women, especially those from Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities have been steadily rising.
She said that between 2022 and 2024, 7418 women belonging to the SC/ST community were raped in Madhya Pradesh. She asserted that this was happening mainly in the BJP-ruled states as the culprits were getting protection from the government.
She also mentioned about a "Gujarat Police poster advising the girls not to get out of their homes during the night hours".
"It only showed the BJP-ruled state's mindset that instead of providing safety and security to women, it was asking them to stay indoors," she said.
Welcoming the conviction and sentencing to life of former JD-S MP Prajwal Revanna, Lamba congratulated the Congress government in Karnataka for conducting the trial in a fast track court. She said, while the Central Government had helped Prajwal flee to Germany, it was due to the efforts of the Congress government in the state that made him face the law.
This, she claimed, is possible only in the Congress-ruled states, which unlike the BJP-ruled states, have zero tolerance towards crimes against women.
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