Imphal, November 29 2010: The State BJP has ridiculed the Congress Government at the Centre on its abject failure to apprehend and penalize the accused in the recent case of a girl from Mizoram being gang-raped by a group of four in Delhi.

State's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Mahila Morch Manipur today staged a joint sit-in-protest within the premises of BJP office, to register their outrage against torture, violence and gang rape of women from North East India often happening on the streets of Delhi right under the noses of the law enforcing authority.

Slogans and placards registered that " Delhi government failed to protect the chastity of NE women", "arrest the rapist and punish them" etc.

Similar protest was staged by BJP at Jantar Mantar in Delhi recently, protesting the rise of crime against North East women in Delhi .

The president of BJP, Manipur State unit, Sh Shantikumar said at the protest site that most of the gang rape victims in the capital of the country are almost always women from North East India who are either students or employees, and asked a pertinent question as to why a city that claims to be a metropolitan still grapples with the abject insecurity of women.

This is because Delhi government has not been able to empower women sufficiently and has not been able to ensure the security of women in the capital city, Shantikumar attempted to answer.

The rhetoric of Delhi being a metropolis and a seat of power with strong intelligence network and the presence of free press has been exposed, he said, rendering the city lurking with predators and the security of its citizens widely compromised.

While the victims are left with nothing to fall back on, the culprits are roaming free.

The Delhi government and Congress-led central government have miserably failed to protect women against gang rapes and such like, particularly women from North East India who have been at the receiving end during the past few years, the BJP leader said.

"The culprits of previous cases of rapes have yet to be arrested and punished," the leader BJP added.

In the given scenario, there seems to be no attempt on the part of the security agencies to come up with policy to preempt further rapes from occurring, the BJP leader said, asking the Sheila Dixit government in Delhi to step down on moral ground.

For the protection and rehabilitation of women from North East region, BJP has instituted an agency for women called "Sampak Cell" for women students and employees in Delhi .

This is the first of its kind and the Cell is centrally convened by Sunial Deodhar and in the State by P Somorjit.

Family members who have their wards staying in Delhi must provide the cell with their phone numbers and addresses, the BJP leader added.

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