Cong leader wants to take kin of killed girls to Priyanka

Senior Congress leader and former MP V Hanumantha Rao Tuesday said he would like to take the family members of three girls who were allegedly sexually assaulted and killed in a village in Telangana, to party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

"I, therefore, want to bring the affected family members to your good self to listen and console them. Kindly give time and intimate me 2-3 days in advance so that I can bring them to Delhi," Rao said in a letter to Vadra.

He said he had given Rs 10,000 to each family when he rushed to the village in Bhongir district after the gruesome incident came to light in April this year.

He said he came to know that police officials had given Rs 20,000 to the families.

"However, giving monetary compensation is not enough. The families needed some consoling from higher-ups in the government," he said.

Hanumantha Rao claimed that neither state Chief Minister nor any minister visited the families so far.

The accused person was arrested and sent to jail soon after the incidents came to light.

Hanumantha Rao said in the letter that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's recent visit to Uttar Pradesh in connection with the Sonbhadra issue gave "much-needed boost to the party workers across the country".

Talking about Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announcing benefits to the tune of Rs 10 lakh per family in his native village, Hanumantha Rao told reporters that he would not object to the announcement, but all villages in the state should be developed similarly.