Smriti Irani, Women's Minister, Is Still Silent On Hathras Gangrape Case While Country Outrages
Why hasn't the Women's Minister Smriti Irani spoken yet?
India's Women and Child Development minister Smriti Irani is missing in action at a time when the country is jolted by a horrific gangrape and murder of a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district.
She also happens to be a Member of the Parliament from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.
Smriti Irani was a prominent face during the protests in Delhi gangrape and murder case back in 2012 when UPA was in power and called for death penalty for the rapists. So far, the minister has chosen to remain close-mouthed on Hathras case where the victim died last morning after the brutal assault.
While she has not said anything on the case yet, Irani has only retweeted UP CM Yogi Adityanath's tweets on the case. Many on social media are also demanding for her resignation accusing her of hypocrisy and only choosing to protest and outrage when in Opposition.
A clip of her protesting during Rohtak rape case has now gone viral on social media, comparing to her silence in the present time.
. @smritiirani Irani held a protest against the growing rapes under the UPA govt.
¡ª Jayasree Vijayan (@JayasreeVijayan) September 29, 2020
Now she is enjoying power !! #HathrasCase pic.twitter.com/pIWw5rtf7l
In case you have forgotten,@SmritiIrani is India's Women and Child development Minister & MP from Uttar Pradesh
¡ª Srivatsa (@srivatsayb) September 29, 2020
She never speaks or takes any action on rapes. Why has crime against women increased so much?
Smriti Irani = Dummy Useless Minister
Modi's cabinet is full of them
Can someone please inform antaxari farosh @smritiirani about brutal gang rape of Hathras girl .. the girl succumbed to injuries.
¡ª Bhavika (@BhavikaKapoor5) September 29, 2020
Smriti Irani, You are Women development cabinet minister, what is your statement on this ? Do remember your protest after Nirbhaya incident as well.
Someone please tell @smritiirani
¡ª Gaurav Pandhi (@GauravPandhi) September 30, 2020
& @Manekagandhibjp that Hathras is in Kerala and Manisha Valmiki was an elephant. They will start jumping on their chairs immediately.
What a fraud these two turned out to be, just like their bosses. Entire BJP is same, no value for human life.
The way kuldeep sengar was sheilded in rape case
¡ª Haris Butt?? (@harisbutt142) September 29, 2020
The way Smriti Irani the famous parliamentary actor kept mum
The way law works in U.P
Law and order is dead in U.P
Its valid to say #ShameOnYogi pic.twitter.com/tcim5SYjGL
Earlier in 2018, Smriti Irani was accused of keeping mum on the Unnao gangrape case in which the primary accused was her former BJP colleague Kuldeep Singh Sengar.
The victim has alleged that on June 4, 2017, she was raped by the MLA of Bangarmau in Unnao district at his residence, when she had gone to meet him with a relative, seeking a job.
Congress has also hit out at the ruling party and its ministers over their "silence" in the Hathras gangrape case.
Hitting out at the BJP over the Hathras gangrape incident, Congress questioned the "silence" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and women leaders of his party and alleged that Uttar Pradesh under the Yogi Adityanath government has become the country''s "crime capital".
