Taking exception to the way the attack on a Tanzanian student on city outskirts was being handled, the opposition BJP has alleged that the government was trying to hush up the “sensitive” incident instead of acting tough.
BJP Spokesperson S. Suresh Kumar told a media conference here on Thursday that the episode was a “blot on the image” of the country, the State, and Bengaluru especially when the State was holding the global investors’ meet.
He took exception to State Home Minister G. Parameshwara disclosing the victim’s name at a press conference though it was a practice not to do so.
“No civilised society will ever try to play down the episode in which a woman’s modesty has been allegedly outraged in public,” he said, while warning the government that such incidents would recur if stern action was not taken.
Taking a dig at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, the BJP leader remarked: “Where are people like Rahul Gandhi, who always criticise the BJP dispensation for growing intolerance?”
