Madhya Pradesh: Congress workers stage protest; want Home Minister to quit

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Congress Minority Department activists staged a protest against rising crime against women, especially rape cases, in the state and demanded regisnation of Home Minister Umashankar Gupta.

The activists, led by department Convenor Arif Masood, gathered at Budhwara square in the Old City area and shouted slogans against the BJP Goverment last evening. They also burnt an effigy of Gupta.

They alleged that the Minister has totally failed in maintaining law and order in the State and hence he should resign from his post immediately.

On one side the Chief Minister was talking about saving the girl child under his (beti bachao) plan and on the other, girls and women were being gang-raped, Masood said in a press release.

A total of 1,262 cases were registered in the State in the last one year and 35 rape victims had allegedly committed suicide during this period, he claimed.