Mayawati jabs PM Modi over Alwar rape case remark: 'Dramebaazi' of love for Dalits

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over ‘shedding crocodile tears’ remark over the Alwar gang-rape case and accused him of "dramebaazi (playacting) with his love for Dalits" and also taunting him on his wife.

"Yesterday PM Modi, in his election rallies here, did dramebaazi of his love for Dalits to draw Dalits but he will gain nothing from this...He was silent on the oppression of Dalits. He is trying to play dirty politics over it," Mayawati said today.

"How can he respect others' sisters and wives when he has left his own wife for political gains? It is my special appeal to women of this country not to vote a person like this. PM Modi, in this election, kept changing his caste according to the situation,” said Mayawati.

On April 26, a Dalit woman was gang-raped by six men, who allegedly also beat up her husband in Rajasthan’s Alwar. The accused also filmed the act and posted the video on social media. As per the woman’s family, the police delayed filing a case because of the national election in Rajasthan. In Rajasthan, Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government took power in December after the BJP's defeat.

Criticising Congress, PM Modi also slammed Mayawati for her support to the state government. "Today the daughters of Uttar Pradesh are asking Behen-ji (Mayawati) that the government in Rajasthan is running with your support and there, a girl from Scheduled Castes got raped. So Behen-ji, why have you not withdrawn your support?" PM Modi said in a Hindi post on Twitter.

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