Women not safe in Jharkhand under Jharkhand Mukti Morcha rule: BJP

Claiming that women are now not safe in Jharkhand the BJP has wondered why Chief Minister Hemant Soren remained silent over the death of a Class12 student who was allegedly set on fire by a manThe saffron party leaders including Jharkhand chief ministers Raghubar Das and Babulal Marandi demanded that the person involved in the heinous crime be punished through trial in a fasttrack courtHowever the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha JMM accused the BJP leaders of trying to do communal politics over the incident and said the state government also wants stringent punishment in itDas who is also the BJP national vice president said A woman was burnt to death but the chief minister is maintaining silence Isnt it a politics of appeasementWe have seen Nadeem Ansari an accused in the Ranchi violence was sent to Delhi in an air ambulance for better treatment at the government cost while the 19yearold woman with burn injuries was not looked after properlyAlso Read MEA officer to meet filmmaker over detention of his minor kids in Pak HC toldViolent protests rocked Ranchi on June 10 over the inflammatory remarks of suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma on Prophet MohammadDas demanded that the government must extend a compensation of Rs one crore and a job to the next of kin of the woman who succumbed to her burn injuries at a hospital here on SundayThe incident happened in Dumka town on August 23 when the accused identified as Shahrukh allegedly poured petrol on the woman from outside the window of her room when she was sleeping and set her on fire the police saidThe deceased had been first admitted to Phulo Jhano Medical College and Hospital in Dumka in critical condition with 90 per cent burns and later referred to Ranchis Rajendra Institute of Medical Science RIMS for better treatmentDumkas heinous incident proves that women are not safe under the Hemant Soren government in Jharkhand In the past 32 months more than 5000 cases of rape registered in the state state BJP president Deepak Prakash alleged on Sunday at the partys Prasikshan Shivir at Madhuban in Giridih districtThe Rajya Sabha MP also said that when the woman was burnt to death the chief minister was enjoying picnicThe accused should be awarded exemplary punishment through trial in a fasttrack court he saidFormer Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi said the woman died due to a lack of proper treatmentResponding to the BJP leaders comments JMM spokesperson Supriyo Bhattacharya said Dumka incident was condemnable The BJP should refrain from doing communal politics over it The government also wants punishment through trial in the fast track courtProhibitory order has been clamped in the Dumka subdivision on Sunday following protests by some rightwing outfits after the death of the womanViswa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal activists had staged a demonstration at Dudhani Chowk in Dumka town