Odisha gangrape: Congress phases protest exterior CM’s residence

In the meantime, Congress staff led by Ajay Kumar Lallu, in-charge of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee, demonstrated exterior the CM’s residence and shouted anti-government slogans. There was a scuffle between Congress staff and safety personnel earlier than they courted arrest.

The Congress held the BJP authorities within the state chargeable for the rise in crimes towards girls.

Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in an X submit expressed her concern over the incident.

“The strongest phrases will not be sufficient to sentence the brutality that was meted out to a pupil by ten males in Gopalpur, Odisha. Violence towards girls is growing day-to-day in Odisha. In a state the place the chief minister himself admits that about 44,000 girls and youngsters have disappeared within the final 5 years, not giving precedence to girls’s security is in itself an atrocity towards girls,” she stated within the submit.