Is he the same man who attacked Dikshit on rape? Congress slams Kejriwal

mangaloretoday.com

New Delhi, Jan 16:  Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, confronted by the alleged gang-rape of a Danish woman on Tuesday, received a tongue-lashing today from the Congress, which had been relentlessly targeted by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) after the fatal gang-rape of a young medical student in December 2012.

 

Congress leader Arvinder Singh Lovely accused Mr Kejriwal of being "more interested in power supply problems" than the gang-rape case.

Workers of the Congress, which extends external support to the AAP, also protested outside the government headquarters today.

"For the Chief Minister to say he will look into the gang-rape case only next week is hypocritical. He should act on such incidents and not wait for days. They (AAP) didn’t wait even a day before protesting after the December 16 gang-rape," Mr Lovely said.

"Is this the same party that accused Sheila Dikshit of making excuses? Today when they had to take responsibility, they say that we need to study this issue."

Arvind Keriwal is credited with defeating the Congress government of Sheila Dikshit in state polls after winning a massive thumbs-up from Delhi’s voters for his litany of promises including safety of women, which struck a chord in a city scarred by the horrific assault on a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in 2012.

The AAP, on the back-foot after the alleged gang-rape of a foreign national weeks after they took power, offered the same argument that it had pilloried the Sheila Dikshit government for - their government has no control over the Delhi Police.

"I would like to wake up the Kejriwal government and ask them to act proactively," Mr Lovely said.

On Wednesday, Congress MP Sandeep Dikshit, Sheila Dikshit’s son, had scathingly said that the gang-rape was not an issue for the AAP as the Danish woman was not a voter