Brutality against women in Ujjain, Siddharthnagar 'blot on humanity': Rahul

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the brutality against women in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain and Uttar Pradesh's Siddharthnagar is a "blot on humanity", asserting that "propaganda-centric" governments have given birth to an insensitive system of which the biggest victims are women. His remarks came after a scrap collector was raped by a man after he forced her to consume liquor in Ujjain's Agar Naka area. In another incident, a woman in Siddharthnagar was allegedly sexually assaulted by the driver and helper of a private ambulance that she hired to transport her terminally ill husband home. "The brutality against women in Ujjain and Siddharthnagar is a blot on humanity. The continuously increasing crimes against women and the attitude of the police administration towards the victim and her family is proof of the cruelty of the system and is a matter of serious concern for the country," Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X. "Propaganda-centric governments .