BJP to intensify protests in Kerala amidst surge in crime against women

As the number of sexual harassment of women and child rape cases have been on the rise in the Communist-ruled Kerala, the chief of the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),  K Surendran alleged on Monday (July 12) that the Pinarayi Vijayan led government is taking no action to reduce crime against women in Kerala and that the BJP will raise this issue all over the state with rallies in the coming days.

This outrage comes in the wake of a six-year-old girl who was allegedly raped and murdered in the Idukki district and Surendran demanded a complaint be filed against the Left MLA, who allegedly said that the victim’s post-mortem is unnecessary and also alleged that the CPM MLA had tried to sabotage the case.
 
“Arjun is an active worker of the youth wing of CPI(M) in Kerala who brutally raped and murdered a six-year-old child in Vandiperiyar. The sitting MLA of the ruling front vehemently opposed the post – mortem of the victim. The Kerala Police should book the MLA under POCSO,” Surendran said.
 
“BJP will intensify protests in coming days against the crime against women and children in Kerala,” he said.
 
“If the perpetrators are to be punished, they must be prosecuted by those in the administration but instead they are protecting them. Kerala is one of the leading states in the country where the accused in cases of sexual harassment go unpunished. Defendants escape because they are the ruling party,” Surendran added.
 
V Muraleedharan, senior BJP leader and Minister of State for External Affairs in a tweet said, “The rise in no of crimes against women and Children in Kerala speak volumes of the misgovernance of the Pinarayi Vijayan regime. It’s shameful that women and children feel unsafe in God’s own country. CPI(M) led Kerala Govt has been protecting and sheltering perpetrators,”.

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