“Politicising Balasore incident” : Congress’ Supriya Shrinate hits out at Dharmendra Pradhan

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New Delhi, July 15, 2025 (ANI): Reacting to Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s remarks on Rahul Gandhi’s tweet regarding the Balasore self-immolation case, Congress leader Supriya Shrinate accused the BJP of politicizing the tragedy. She said, “Pradhan should apologise to the women of Odisha, to this girl and her family, instead of demanding an apology from Rahul Gandhi.”

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00:00It is absolutely unfortunate that a girl had to give up her life while seeking justice.

00:07Her family, all of us, I think the country at large wants justice to prevail.

00:12The reality is that she had made sexual exploitation and mental harassment complaints at various levels.

00:18No heed was paid to it.

00:20The administration kept protecting the perpetrator, the police did not act

00:24and finally she was left with no choice but she self-immolated

00:28and now she has succumbed to her injuries.

00:30Who is responsible for this?

00:31The government, the police, the university administration,

00:36all of them came together to kill this girl

00:38and it is unfortunate that while we raised her voice,

00:41Dharmendra Pradhan and people from the BJP did not speak a word even though she was an ABVP member

00:45and today he wants to politicize this matter, today he wants to do dirty politics on this.

00:50He has the goal to say that Rahul Gandhi should apologize.

00:55He should apologize to the women of Urdisha, to this girl, to her family

00:59of how they failed a young promising life who finally succumbed to her injuries today.

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