Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi were detained on Thursday. (File)
New Delhi:
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will make another attempt this afternoon to travel to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh and speak to the family of the 20-year-old Dalit woman who was gang raped and murdered, and whose body was then cremated by the police in a secretive ceremony at 2.30 am.
A delegation of party leaders that will include Mr Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will, if they are allowed to, speak to the family of the young woman, who have been traumatised first by the savage assault and then by the alleged inaction of the UP Police and government.
This will be Mr Gandhi’s second attempt to meet her family; on Thursday both he and Mrs Gandhi Vadra were stopped in UP’s Greater Noida (near Delhi) and briefly taken into custody. Mr Gandhi was manhandled and pushed to the ground by the cops in that tussle, prompting widespread indignation at the UP government’s handling of opposition leaders.
