‘Why’s award-wapsi gang silent?’ asks PM Modi over Alwar gang-rape case

While addressing an election rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at the Congress government in Rajasthan. Raising the recent case of the alleged gang-rape of a Dalit woman in Rajasthan’s Alwar, PM Modi accused the Ashok Gehlot-led state government of trying to suppress the case till the elections concluded. The Prime Minister also targeted the ‘award-wapsi gang’, alluding to a group of individuals who had returned their national awards accusing the National Democratic Alliance government of intolerance. Modi asked why the ‘award-wapsi gang’ was silent now.