The 5-member fact-finding team of the BJP on Saturday reached Belagavi to collect 1st hand information into the matter where a tribal woman was assaulted and paraded naked.
A delegation of MPs comprising of Aparajita Sarangi, Sunita Duggal, Ranjeeta Koli, Locket Chatterjee and BJP national secretary Asha Lakra arrived at the Belagavi airport in the morning.
The team will not only meet the victim and console her, but will also get detailed information about the incident. The woman was also been tied to a pole after her son eloped with a girl from the same community at Vantamuri village in Belagavi on December 11. Police have arrested 8 people while 8 others are still at large.
The High Court of Karnataka has taken the case on its own. It also termed the incident worse than what happened to Draupadi during Mahabharata, as Lord Krishna came to her rescue, but in the Belagavi incident, no one came to help the victim.
The BJP will also be staging a Statewide demonstrations in all the districts condemning the incident. BJP president JP Nadda and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman have also condemned the assault.
However, in a statement, Nadda said that, such heinous crimes especially against women, are happening at regular intervals ever since the Congress government has come to power in Karnataka. This also exposes the irresponsible behaviour of Congress governments everywhere in the country in tackling such crimes.
In a post of ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), Ms. Sitharaman stated, “In @INCIndia there is no ‘nyay’ (Justice) for the SCs and STs. The recent incident in Belagavi, Karnataka falls in the same category as those repeated atrocities against the Dalits seen till recently in Congress-ruled Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. For Congress the downtrodden are just a votebank.” Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah slammed Nadda for attempting to gain political mileage out of the Belagavi incident.
In a strongly worded statement, the CM said the BJP’s rule in Karnataka witnessed several instances of violence against women, but Nadda forgot this to politically target the Congress government. He charged, “Unfortunately, he is using a recent incident of violence against a woman in Belagavi for politics.”
