Dehradun: Uttarakhand Cabinet Minister Rekha Arya’s husband, Girdhari Lal Sahu, has given a controversial statement regarding young women from Bihar, giving the Congress party another opportunity to corner the BJP government and Minister Rekha Arya. Congress women workers staged a strong protest in the capital Dehradun today, Friday, January 2nd, against Girdhari Lal Sahu’s controversial statement.
During this time, workers of the Uttarakhand Women’s Congress Committee tried to gherao (surround) Cabinet Minister Rekha Arya’s official residence, but the police stopped the protesting women by putting up barricades at the main gate of Yamuna Colony. Following this, Congress leaders sat on the road and raised slogans against Cabinet Minister Rekha Arya, expressing their protest.
During the protest, the State President of the Uttarakhand Congress Women’s Wing, Jyoti Rautela, said that BJP women leaders have remained silent on the Ankita Bhandari murder case, due to which they are continuously gheraoing the residences of BJP women MLAs and ministers. Amidst all this, Cabinet Minister Rekha Arya’s husband gave an objectionable statement regarding women.
Jyoti Rautela said that Cabinet Minister Rekha Arya’s husband’s statement that girls from Bihar are available for marriage for Rs. 20,000 to 25,000 is an insult to women across the country. The Congress is burning effigies across the state against this statement by Cabinet Minister Rekha Arya’s husband.
Congress calls Sahu’s statement an insult to women: Jyoti Rautela said that Congress women workers were gheraoing the residences of ministers and MLAs of the BJP government to get justice for Ankita Bhandari, a daughter of the state, but it is unfortunate that the statement given by the husband of Women Empowerment and Child Development Minister Rekha Arya regarding women from Bihar is very unfortunate. She called it an insult to the women of the country.
Police detain Women’s Congress workers: Jyoti Rautela said that today they had to protest by going to Yamuna Colony, but tomorrow the Women’s Congress will go to the police to file a complaint against him. After a prolonged commotion at the gate of Yamuna Colony, the police detained the women Congress workers and sent them to the police lines.
