Congress meets Jharkhand governor over rape incidents, seeks ouster of CM Raghubar Das

RANCHI: The Congress party on Tuesday requested governor Droupadi Murmu to ensure the safety of women in Jharkhand as crimes against women registered a spike in the past seven days.

A Congress delegation led by its Jharkhand chief Ajoy Kumar met Murmu at the Raj Bhawan and urged her to ‘try and wake up the Raghubar Das government’ from its slumber in the wake of 400 incidents of crimes against women in the state since January this year.

Congress leaders held chief minister Raghubar Das, who is also the home minister, responsible for failing to prevent the growing incidents of rape, molestation and sodomy in Jharkhand and demanded his ouster with immediate effect. They also demanded that DK Pandey, the DGP of Jharkhand be relinquished of his post at once for the failure of police department in bringing the accused to book.

Kumar called Das inhuman for remaining silent on these incidents and not visiting the families of the victims. “Jharkhand CM is following Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who stays does not speak a word when a girl is raped,” he added.

Kumar announced that the party will hold dharnas at every block and district headquarters on Wednesday against the deteriorating law and order in Jharkhand.

Jharkhand is on the boil after five incidents of rape, one failed attempt to rape and a case of sodomy were reported in the state within seven days. The cases were reported from Chatra, Garhwa, Dumka, Pakur, Dumka, Ramgarh and Ranchi districts.