Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Slams BJP, RSS For "Harrassment" Of Nuns On Train

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said she had spoken on the phone to the Nuns and they told her that they were worried.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday slammed the BJP and RSS for the alleged harassment suffered by the Nuns belonging to a Kerala based congregation during a train journey in Uttar Pradesh and claimed that Home Minister Amit Shah had condemned it only because of assembly polls. Addressing a rally at Karunagapally in Kollam district,Ms Vadra said, "It's election time. That's why when the sisters (nuns) were taken off a train in Jhansi and harassed by their own people, the Union Minister made a comment saying it's wrong. The rest of the time, they fully encouraged this sort of behaviour." "Who gave the men of the BJP youth wing permission and authority to harass women on a train? Who gave them the right to check the identity papers of the Nuns and two girls with them. Who allowed them to ask what their religion was? Are we to believe that in our country women cannot take a train without being harassed by someone and she is answerable to some goons about what she stands for and what she believes in?" she asked. The Congress leader said she had spoken on the phone to the Nuns and they told her that they were worried. They were pulled out of the train, they were afraid and there was nobody to protect them, shesaid adding when the BJP and the RSS make "hollow" statements about protecting women, it's a "farce because they don't respect women".