Rahul Gandhi leads candlelight vigil for Kathua, Unnao rape victims

April 13, 2018 00:18

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is leading a midnight candlelight vigil at India Gate in New Delhi to demand justice for Asifa, the 8-year-old girl who was gang-raped and murdered in Jammu and Kashmir and the teenager in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao, who was allegedly raped by a Bharatiya Janata Party MLA.

"Like millions of Indians my heart hurts tonight. India simply cannot continue to treat its women the way it does. Join me in a silent, peaceful, candlelight vigil at India Gate at midnight tonight to protest this violence and demand justice," Rahul Gandhi had tweeted this evening amid nationwide outcry over two rape incidents.

Earlier, breaking his silence on the case earlier today, Rahul Gandhi had tweeted, "How can anyone protect the culprits of such evil? What happened to Asifa at #Kathua is a crime against humanity. It cannot go unpunished. What have we become if we allow politics to interfere with such unimaginable brutality perpetrated on an innocent child?"

Union Minister VK Singh also added his voice to the spiraling outrage over Asifa's gang-rape and murder. "We have failed Asifa as humans. But she will not be denied justice," tweeted the former army chief, the first minister in the BJP-led central government to talk about justice for the child who suffered unspeakable cruelty in her last few days.

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