Mumbai: Senior Congress leader and Maharashtra Minister Nitin Raut has urged the Centre to dismiss the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh over the alleged gang-rape and death of a Dalit woman in Hathras.
Raut, the chairperson of the AICC SC wing, said atrocities against Dalits and women have increased considerably ever since the BJP came to power in Uttar Pradesh in 2017.
Speaking to PTI, he condemned the detention of Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra by the UP police.
Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and around 150 of their party workers were briefly detained in Greater Noida on Thursday for alleged violation of prohibitory orders while walking towards Hathras to meet the Dalit rape victim’s family.