NEW DELHI: Congress chief
Rahul Gandhi in a late night tweet today thanked
Prime Minister Narendra Modi for breaking his silence on the rape cases and demanded that the latter should also specify a timeline for the justice promised to the victims.
"Dear Prime Minister,
Thank you for breaking your long silence.
You said “our daughters will get justice”.
India wants to know: when?
#SpeakUp" He tweeted.
The Congress leader was responding to Prime Minister Modi's speech made earlier today where he had promised that the culprits of the rape cases in
Kathua and
Unnao will not be spared and justice shall be delivered.
"Incidents being discussed since past two days cannot be part of a civilised society. As a country, as a society we all are ashamed of it. I want to assure the country that no culprit will be spared, complete justice will be done. Our daughters will definitely get justice," PM Modi said during the inauguration of Dr Ambedkar National Memorial in the national capital.
The Opposition has been grilling the government for its failure to act against the perpetrators of the two rape cases — in J&K's Kathua and UP's Unnao.
Yesterday, Rahul had led a candlelight march to India Gate in the capital to protest against the government's silence on the rape cases - in one of which BJP MLA Kuldeep Kumar Sengar is the main suspect. He was arrested by the CBI earlier today.
In Unnao, the rape victim had alleged that on June 4, 2017, she was raped by the MLA at his residence, when she had gone to meet him, along with a relative, seeking a job, while an eight-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua earlier this year.
