Unnao residents decided to take out a rally on Monday, April 23, in support of BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh, the accused in the rape case of an 18-year-old girl who was a minor when the incident occurred. With placards and banners in their hand, the residents marched chanting the slogan “Hamare Vidhayak Nirdosh Hai” (Our legislator is innocent).
News18 reported how hundreds of people had gathered from Bangarmau, Safipur, Bighapur and other nearby areas of Unnao to take part in the protest supporting Sengar. The protestors believed that the whole episode was a political conspiracy hatched against the BJP leader.
Residents of Unnao have taken out a rally in support of a rape accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Senger. #UnnaoHorror | @qazifarazahmad https://t.co/8ng49Zt2f6
— News18 (@CNNnews18) April 23, 2018
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The rally was led by the Nagar Panchayat president Anuj Kumar Dixit, who told News 18,
“It is a political conspiracy to defame our MLA. He is innocent and being framed in false charges. We demand a neutral and independent enquiry into the matter.”
A similar rally was taken out in Kathua in support of the prime accused. Echoing the same views that the Unnao residents have, the supporters of the accused in Kathua demanded a CBI probe and claimed that the accused were being blamed unfairly.
Two BJP leaders — Choudhary Lal Singh and Chander Prakash Ganga — had participated in the rally taken out in support of the Kathua rape accused. BJP leader Choudhary Lal Singh on Saturday, April 21, defended his participation in the protest, saying that it was meant to defuse the situation and restore normalcy, PTI reported.
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Naturally, social media was aghast as Twitter users strongly spoke out against the culture of supporting the rape accused.
It has become a new trend in our country to carry out rallies in support of rape accused people !? #Unnao https://t.co/U0dliNk9kP
— Dhruv Rathee (@dhruv_rathee) April 23, 2018
Only in India can there be protest rallies for rape accused, when the survivors family were arrested for protesting the non-arrest of the accused which led to the survivor’s father dying of police brutality in jail.
Indignation barely covers what I feel.https://t.co/Gn1MgbpV26
— Anupam Guha (@Anupam_Guha) April 23, 2018
Seriously WTF is going on? Why the heck are these idiots protesting against their own Government ordered police investigations?
Also, why hasn’t the BJP suspended this MLA yet, pending investigations? https://t.co/VpF7oQEyGg
— Meghnad (@Memeghnad) April 23, 2018
First #Kathua, then #Unnao. It’s becoming a fashion for hordes of Sanghis to take out massive rallies vociferously supporting rape-accused : https://t.co/NWMaWQXECv
— Saurav Datta (@SauravDatta29) April 23, 2018
People take out protest rally in Unnao demanding release of a rape accused neta, a sincere doctor is kept behind bars for trying to save lives of kids in Gorakhpur hospital and no cry for his release. Terrifying times we live in. #SaveDrKafeelKhan
— Asheem (@peekeymon) April 23, 2018
BJP has brought the worst out of Indians. Never before had common people taken out rallies in support of rapists but now, after Kathua, men & women supporting BJP took out a rally in Unnao, defending the rapist MLA.
Shame on you morons, it could’ve been your daughter. pic.twitter.com/HQDgQbQzAV
— Jas Oberoi (@iJasOberoi) April 23, 2018
