Badlapur Sexual Assault: MVA Requires Maharashtra Bandh On August 24

The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Wednesday known as for a “Maharashtra bandh” on August 24 to protest towards the alleged sexual assault on two younger women at a faculty in Badlapur of Thane district.

MVA allies – Congress, Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP) headed by Sharad Pawar – took the choice after a gathering right here, mentioned Vijay Wadettiwar, chief of opposition within the state meeting.

He mentioned all MVA allies will take part within the bandh on August 24.

“We mentioned the problem of girls’s safety within the state and the failure of the BJP-led Mahayuti authorities on all fronts,” he mentioned.

In the meantime, Mumbai Congress president Varsha Gaikwad led a protest outdoors Mantralaya, the state secretariat, over the Badlapur incident. Wadettiwar and some congress leaders had been additionally current through the protest.

Holding placards outdoors the gates of Mantralaya, Congress leaders and staff shouted slogans towards the federal government for the “delay within the registration of the FIR”. The protesters had been stopped by the police from getting into the premises.

Gaikwad and Wadettiwar slammed the state authorities for the “rise in crimes towards ladies within the state”.

Police on August 17 arrested an attendant on the college for sexually abusing two lady college students of the kindergarten at a faculty in Badlapur. As per the grievance, he abused the ladies in the bathroom of the college, an official mentioned.

The opposition events have alleged that the mother and father of the ladies had been made to attend for 11 hours at Badlapur police station earlier than the officers took observe of their complaints.

1000’s of protesters on Tuesday blocked railway tracks at Badlapur station and stormed the college constructing over the incident.

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