Sitharaman: Congress failed to check crime against women

Bengaluru, April 29: Expressing concern over attacks on young girls and women in the country, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the Congress government in Karnataka had failed to check crime against women in the state.

"The Congress government failed the state's people in checking crime against women," Sitharaman said while addressing an interactive women's outreach programme organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state unit ahead of May 12 Assembly polls.

Dubbing as "painful" the politicisation of crime against women, she said that the Congress government had "protected" perpetrators of such crime.

"Crime and violence against women have to prevented through stringent laws and action. The Congress, instead, has protected the perpetrators of crime," Sitharaman claimed.