New Delhi,August 13 :In the last three months Rahul baba is going around UP claiming that many rapes have taken place in UP by mayawati police specially in troubled ares of greater Noida.
THE Congress party on Friday faced an embarrassing situation in Parliament as the government informed the Rajya Sabha that an inquiry committee constituted by the National Commission for Women ( NCW) to probe allegations of rape in Bhatta- Parsaul villages in Uttar Pradesh has ruled out any such incident.
“ No specific case of rape has been confirmed by the inquiry committee,” women and child welfare minister Krishna Tirath said in reply to a written question.
The findings fly in the face of extraordinary allegations made by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi who, during his visit to the agitation- hit villages of Greater Noida, had claimed before the media that women were raped and several people killed by the UP police to quell the protest against land acquisition by the farmers.
However, the NCW inquiry committee which visited Bhatta- Parsaul on May 12 to enquire into the allegations has denied that any incident of rape took place in the two villages.
The findings of the NCW are in sync with those of the National Human Rights Commission that had also ruled out rape.
The Congress general secretary had taken on BSP supremo and UP chief minister Mayawati by levelling allegations of rape and atrocities against the Noida administration following the crackdown on protesters.
The entire exercise was seen as an attempt by the Congress to regain lost ground in UP in view of the assembly elections scheduled for next year.
The Amethi MP had slipped into tense Bhatta- Parsaul at night, with TV cameras in tow recording his moves. Mayawati had acted swiftly, packing off Rahul and his entourage out of the state limits.
A few days later, the Congress general secretary had taken a delegation of Bhatta- Parsaul farmers to meet the Prime Minister.
Rahul had alleged that women had been raped in the villages and men set on fire. He had also spoken about villagers spotting heaps of ashes containing human remains.
Mayawati had then lashed out at the Congress with her characteristic caustic remarks.
“ Before levelling an allegation of rape, these senior leaders ought to have introspected that they were also maligning the women of the area… How would they feel if such allegations were levelled against their own sisters or mothers?” The state government had said that the ashes alleged to have carried human remains were, in fact, ashes of cow dung cakes. “ We had sent samples of the ash to the Central Forensic Laboratory in Agra and have received a confirmation that they did not contain any human remains,” a statement by the UP government had earlier said.