SP leaders consider it their life's goal to prove every rapist, criminal innocent: Adityanath
Yogi Adityanath on Sunday alleged the opposition Samajwadi Party consider it «their life's goal to prove every rapist and criminal innocent» and asserted that it would not be possible in the state. In his address at an event at Kumarganj in Ayodhya, he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working to empower women across the country through the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' drive and the Nari Shakti Vandan Act, ensuring 33 per cent reservation of women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.
«On the other hand Samajwadi Party leaders are supporting those who gang-raped a doctor in Kolkata,» Adityanath said after distributing tablets and smartphones to students and appointment letters at a district-level mega employment fair and youth conference in Ayodhya.
The alleged rape and murder of a trainee woman doctor while on duty at West Bengal government-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata and subsequent vandalism there has sparked nationwide protests.
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister recalled Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav's controversial «boys will be boys» remark made a decade ago to hit out at the opposition party, saying that its leaders «should be ashamed».
«Values remain… These are the same people who used to say 'they are boys, they make mistakes',» Adityanath said.
The chief minister said, «These are the same people who shamelessly worked to save those criminals in the rape of a poor girl from a very backward caste in Ayodhya.»
A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a bakery
