'No justice for SC/STs in Congress', says Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday lashed out at the Congress government in Karnataka over the Belagavi incident where a 42-year-old woman was stripped naked and assaulted on December 10 after her son eloped with a girl.

"In Congress, there is no 'nyay' for the SCs and STs. The recent incident in Belgavi, Karnataka falls in the same category as those repeated atrocities against the Dalits seen till recently in Congress-ruled Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. For Congress the downtrodden are just a vote bank," Sitharaman wrote on X.

BJP president JP Nadda has formed a 5-member fact finding committee to visit the site of the incident and submit the report to party president. - OPB