New Delhi: Launching a frontal attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the former “has constantly chosen silence in the face of untold violence against women”.
He hit out at Modi in a letter he addressed to Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah in connection with the Prajwal Revanna sexual abuse case. The Congress leader urged Siddaramaiah to extend all possible support to victims of the alleged sexual abuse case and to ensure that all parties responsible for these heinous crimes are brought to book.
“They deserve our compassion and solidarity as they fight their battle for justice. We have a collective duty to ensure that all parties responsible for these heinous crimes are brought to book,” Gandhi wrote in his letter.
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He also accused Modi of “tacit support” to perpetrators of violence against women. “In my two decades of public life, I have never come across a senior public representative who has constantly chosen silence in the face of untold violence against women. From our wrestlers in Haryana to our sisters in Manipur, Indian women are bearing the brunt of PM’s tacit support for such criminals,” Gandhi said in his letter.
He also trained his guns at Union home minister Amit Shah. “I am deeply shocked to learn that as far back as December 2023, our Home Minister Shri Amit Shah was informed by Shri G Devaraje Gowda about Prajwal Revanna’s antecedents, especially his history of sexual violence and the presence of videos filmed by the perpetrator,” the former Congress chief said.
He then went on to say, “Furthermore, the Union government wilfully allowed him to flee India to derail any meaningful investigation. The deeply perverse nature of these crimes and the absolute immunity enjoyed by Prajwal Revanna with the blessings of the Prime Minister and Home Minister deserves the strongest condemnation.”
Describing the incidents as “horrific sexual violence” unleashed by the incumbent member of parliament from Hassan, Gandhi alleged that Revanna sexually assaulted and filmed hundreds of women over several years. “Many who looked up to him as a brother and son were brutalised in the most violent manner and robbed of their dignity. The rape of our mothers and sisters warrants the strictest possible punishment,” he wrote in his life.
