To call my visit a photo-op is an insult, angry Rahul lashes out on Dalit killing

October 21, 2015 13:17

Rahul Gandhi hits out at reporters on his visit to the Dalit family whose children were burnt alive. When reporters ask him if the visit was a photo -op, an angry Rahul says, "Why is it a photo op? People are dying in this country. What do you mean by photo op? It's an insult not to me, but to these people! I will visit again and again and again. What do you mean by calling it a photo-op!. The PM, CM (ML Khattar) believe the poor can be crushed. It's their attitude that is responsible for this."

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday visited the Sunped village in Haryana and met the kin of the Dalit family, which was set on fire on Tuesday.

The Congress leader arrived at the house of Jitender in Sun Perh village near Ballabgarh around noon and pacified the shattered family whose house was set on fire by unidentified people after dousing it with petrol.

Jitender, his wife Rekha, four-year-old son Vaibhav and eight-month-old daughter Divya were rushed to Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital. Police said that the two children succumbed to burn injuries. The parents were left seriously injured.

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