Meanwhile, Congress workers led by Ajay Kumar Lallu, in-charge of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee, demonstrated outside the CM’s residence and shouted anti-government slogans. There was a scuffle between Congress workers and security personnel before they courted arrest.
The Congress held the BJP government in the state responsible for the rise in crimes against women.
Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in an X post expressed her concern over the incident.
“The strongest words are not enough to condemn the brutality that was meted out to a student by ten men in Gopalpur, Odisha. Violence against women is increasing day by day in Odisha. In a state where the chief minister himself admits that about 44,000 women and children have disappeared in the last five years, not giving priority to women’s safety is in itself an atrocity against women,” she said in the post.
