BJP women leader protest against BJP Govt; Rape and death in custody

Lucknow, April 12: Facing all-round fire over the alleged gang rape of a woman by a ruling party legislator and the subsequent death of victim's father in police custody, the BJP government faced yet another embarrassment on Wednesday when its women leader Deepti Bhardwaj slammed the conduct of the state government on the incident.

Bharadwaj said the conduct of the government was very dismaying and that the blot of Unnao incident would never be washed away.

She further said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was voted to power with absolute majority with the support of women voters who thought that they would be safe under the party's rule. But, the reverse was happening, she rued.

Bhardwaj also tagged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah in her vocal tweets.

"This is a big failure of the UP government as we fought for the respect and honour of women, but it is all at stake to save an influential person (Unnao MLA Kuldeep Singh Senger)," she said.