NEW DELHI, Apr 13:
Facing flak over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases, the BJP today claimed that its rivals were “selectively” picking the two instances to target it and asserted that stringent action was being taken in both the cases.
BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi defended the two Jammu and Kashmir Ministers of the party, who had joined a march against the police probe into the ghastly rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua, saying they were “misled and misguided”.
The party did not share their views and they should have maintained that the law was taking its course, she told a press conference here.
To a question on whether the party would take action against the two Jammu and Kashmir ministers, the New Delhi MP said it was not a “crime” to be misled.
“The lesson for them is allow the law to take its own course before opening your mouth,” Lekhi said.
The police had carried out a “very fair investigation” and arrested eight accused in the case, Lekhi said, while suggesting that the Congress might have had a role in the public protests against the probe.
Bar Association of Jammu president B S Slathia, who was spearheading the protests in Kathua, was Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s polling agent in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, she claimed.
The Bar Association of Jammu was also putting pressure on the woman lawyer representing the prosecution not to take up the case against the accused and it showed what kind of “hateful politics” was being practised, Lekhi said.
She also accused the opposition parties of doing “dangerous politics” over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases. (PTI)