Protest march over DU student, Radhika Tanwar, killing;CM visits family
A day after a 20-year-old Delhi University student was shot dead in broad daylight, students led a massive protest in the national capital on Wednesday, with anger directed at the police administration and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who has admitted that the capital is not safe for women.
Dikshit visited the victim?s family, though she continued to be slammed by the students as well as political rivals over the incident.
Hundreds of students from various colleges of South Campus of Delhi University gathered near ARSD College to protest the killing of Radhika Tanwar, who was shot dead near her Ramlal Anand College by an unidentified person on Tuesday.
The students raised slogans against the government and demanded that security be beefed up near the colleges, especially after dusk.
Girl students particularly pointed that women lacked security in the capital even though the chief minister was herself a woman.
Meanwhile, Dikshit, who has admitted on the lack on safety for women in Delhi, on Wednesday visited the family of Radhika.
Visiting the family at Naraina, the chief minister extended her sympathies to the aggrieved family and assured of nabbing the guilty.
She said the police has been directed to expedite investigations.
Meanwhile, former TV-star and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Mahila Morcha President Smriti Irani has demanded the resignation of Dikshit over rising crimes in the nation?s capital.
On International Women?s Day, when a student of Delhi University Radhika Tanwar was shot dead by an unknown assailant, the BJP women wing leader said that Dikshit must resign over her failure to curb crime.
?An admission by the Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit that ‘Delhi is unsafe for women’ highlights the sheer helplessness and incompetence of the Congress government in the state,? said the leader from the opposition party.
Irani said that the commitment to reducing crime in the region has been ?reduced to a mere lip service by the Delhi government and the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)?.
