Mayawati targets govt over Hathras case
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Monday raised a question on the style of working of the Uttar Pradesh government over the Hathras gang-rape case and said that there was a rule of criminals in the state.
In two tweets on Monday, Mayawati said the difficulties that the family of Hathras gang-rape victim was facing in getting justice was sad and shameful. She said the new facts in this regard which had come up in the court raised serious questions on the working style of the government in providing justice to the victims.
She said, “The UP government is again in the dock after the Honourable High Court took cognisance of the new facts in the Hathras case and ordered an investigation into witnesses being threatened and the people are forced to think how the victims will get justice? Is this common belief, that criminals rule in UP and it is very difficult to get justice, wrong?”
Meanwhile cabinet minister and government spokesman Sidharth Nath Singh reacted strongly to Mayawati’s tweets and said that the former chief minister of UP should check the facts before issuing any statement otherwise she would also become irrelevant for the UP politics.
“In the case in which Mayawati said that the government has threatened, it is in fact the arguments between the lawyers of the two parties,” Singh said, asking Mayawati to first check the facts that it was the victim’s lawyer who first misbehaved.
He said the Yogi Adityanath government was known for taking quick action in criminal cases and Mayawati could also not deny this.
Singh took a jibe at Mayawati, cautioning her that people around her were trying to improve their image by giving her wrong facts.
