Priyanka slams UP govt over video of cop 'beating' youth seeking action over alleged rape of girl
New Delhi, Oct 14: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday attacked the Uttar Pradesh government, alleging that "VIP treatment" was being given to a minister's son while a poor family seeking justice over their complaint of murder and rape of a 10-year-old girl was being handed a beating.
The Congress general secretary shared a video purportedly showing a police official hitting a boy as a family pleads before the official.
"Does a poor family have no right to justice? Mr. Chief Minister, why is your administration handing a beating when justice is being sought," Priyanka Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.
"You give VIP treatment to the minister's son and when the poor come with a complaint about the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl, you beat them up. What kind of justice is this?" she said, in an apparent reference to Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra who was arrested on Saturday by the Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with the mowing down of four farmers on October 3 in Lakhimpur Kheri in the state.
The video posted by Priyanka Gandhi is reportedly of an incident from Azamgarh district.
According to media reports, the family of a 10-year girl has alleged that she was raped and later died at a hospital during treatment. They claimed that their complaint was not being taken seriously by the police.
क्या इस गरीब परिवार को न्याय का कोई हक नहीं है? मुख्यमंत्री जी आपका प्रशासन न्याय मांगने पर पीट क्यों रहा है?
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) October 14, 2021
मंत्री के बेटे को तो आप वीआईपी ट्रीटमेंट देते हो और जब गरीब एक 10 साल की बच्ची के बलात्कार और हत्या की शिकायत लेकर पहुंचते हैं, तो उनको पीटते हो।
ये कहां का न्याय है? pic.twitter.com/sr25CAYoRl
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Crossing river, trekking hill voters reach polling booths to cast vote in Surguja LS constituency
Balrampur/Chhattisgarh (PTI): Enthusiastic voters reached polling booths trekking steep hilly paths, crossing a river and even on a horse to cast their votes in remote areas of the tribal-dominated Balrampur district in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday, officials said.
Balrampur district falls under the Surguja Lok Sabha constituency which was among seven seats where polling was held in third and last phase of Lok Sabha elections in the state. The Surguja Lok Sabha recorded 74.59 per cent voting, as per the Turnout application.
Voters, belonging to Pahadi Korva, a particularly vulnerable tribal group, including Rajesh, Madan, Sukhu, Gopal and Nandlal, crossed a river to exercise their franchise at a polling booth in village panchayat Amera under the Samri assembly constituency, a government official said.
Similarly, electors, including Lakhan Nagesia, Sahu, Phulsai and Kalesh of Bachwar village under the Ramanujganj assembly constituency walked through hilly terrain for about two hours covering 8 kms to reach a polling booth and cast their vote, he said. A voter, Parimal Dey, reached a polling booth in Sagarpur village under the Ramanujganj assembly seat on a horse, the official said. Dey is a cattle rearer who owns 150 goats.
Two hyper sensitive polling booths -- Chunchuna and Pundag -- located in a Naxal-affected area of the district which shares border with Jharkhand, also recorded significant turnout, he said. The two booths are located in the Samri assembly constituency.
"Special security arrangements were put in place in this area to ensure peaceful voting. Voters of Chunchuna and Pudang ensured their participation in the great festival of democracy braving Naxalite threat," he said. The Chunchuna polling booth has 767 voters and it recorded 84.35 per cent turnout, while Pundag has 595 electors and it registered a turnout of 72.44 per cent till 5 pm, the official added.
