AFTER UTTARAKHAND AND CHANDIGARH, PROTESTS CONTINUE IN DELHI TOO, AGAINST THE SHAMFUL RAPE AND ABOMINABLE MURDER OF A MINOR IN UTTARKASHI, MEMO TO PM AND UK CM SUBMITTED

Several social organisations of Uttarakhand in Delhi today protested in front of parliament against the most heinous and brutal rape and murder of a 14 year old girl in Uttarkashi on 17th August in Uttarkashi, Garhwal and presented a memorandum to the prime minister’s South Block office and the Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat, demanding the death sentence to the culprits through the fast track court proceedings and identifying the outsiders with suspicious and criminal backgrounds including the Bangladeshi and Rohingya immigrants and evicting them out of the state including fixing of 1960 as the base or cut of year for considering the primary residentship of the citizens of the state.

The memorandum also accused the present and previous governments of Uttarakhand state for not being vigilant and conscious to apply checks on the illegal infiltrators, immigrants and anti social elements entering the state and commiting obnoxious rapes, murders, burglaries, assault on women, children and incests and considering the state as the haven for their illegal and criminal activities.

People of Uttarakhandi origins and representatives of various social organisations including NGO’s started gathering at the parliament street at around 11 AM from where the demonstraters marched towards the parliament street raising anti government slogans demanding death for the rapists.

A good number of women volunteers participated in the protest demonstration under the banner of AKROSH RALLY. It may be recalled that there is great amount of resentment and disenchantment against the BJP led government of Uttarakhand for the most diabolical murder and obnoxious rape of a 14 year old minor in Uttarkashi and Delhi, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Almora and Haldwani witnessed massive demonstrations and candle marches during the last one and a half week but its really disheartening to note that except the CM, Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat not a single senior BJP minister, MP or MLA and leader in the state and Delhi has uttered a single word to condemn this barbaric incident. Sounds shocking.

The protestors, majority of them being women were wearing black badges and strips on their arms expressing their indignation and protest against the Uttarakhand government under whose jurisdiction number of cases of women assaults and communal frenzy have taken place during the last one and a half years in Satpuli, Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Jehrikhal and Kotdwar etc.

The Uttarakhand Journalists Forum has expressed its complete solidarity with the above cause and urged the government of the state to try the culprits under fast track courts to bring them to justice at the earliest and grant a compensation of at least Rs ten lakh to the traumatic and bereaved family of the deceased as demanded by the UK Congress in a memorandum presented to the state governor Dr. K. K. Paul few days ago.