Rahul Gandhi also attacked the Vasundhara Raje government alleging that the Chief Minister was showing apathy as the case was related to a Dalit. (PTI photo)
Drawing a parallel with the Rohith Vemula suicide case, Congress vice President Rahul Gandhi today backed the demand for a CBI probe made by the family of a 17-year-old Dalit girl, who was allegedly raped and found dead under mysterious circumstances.
The Congress Vice President, who visited the family of the girl Barmer's Tirmohi village, alleged that just like Mr Vemula's suicide, the authorities were trying to suppress this case.
"The father of the girl has no faith on the government and the state police and wants a CBI inquiry. He is demanding nothing but justice for his daughter and now it is the responsibility of the Chief Minister to ensure justice by referring the case to CBI," Mr Gandhi said.
He also attacked the Vasundhara Raje government alleging that the Chief Minister was showing apathy as the case was related to a Dalit.
Both Congress and BJP want schools and education for the people but "the difference is that BJP and RSS people want to do discrimination with Dalit but the Congress wants Dalits to sit with all, to run schools, to become principals in schools and even want Dalits to run the country," he said.
"A delegation comprised of both Congress and BJP MLAs met the Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje to demand justice for the girl. I am told that the Chief Minister asked them to not waste her time by talking for the girl's case," Mr Gandhi said while addressing a Dalit conference in Jaipur.
Mr Gandhi raked up the issue of alleged suicide by Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad Central University on which he had vociferously attacked the BJP-led government at the Centre.
"In Bikaner, the Dalit girl was murdered but the police and government saying it was suicide. In Rohith Vermula's case of Hyderabad, Union Minister Sushma Swaraj said that he was not a Dalit. These cases are being suppressed," he said.
"Rohit Vermula's case was that of murder and it was done by the government of India," he added.