New Delhi
In a show of unity, leaders of a number of Opposition parties, including Congress president Rahul Gandhi, joined the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in a massive protest at Jantar Mantar over the alleged rape of young girls at a shelter home in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur and demanded that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar should take immediate action against the accused.

Prominent leaders who joined the protest included Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav and Misa Bharti, CPM’s Sitaram Yechury, CPI’s D Raja and Atul Kumar Anjan, Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav and TMC’s Dinesh Trivedi.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi said if Nitish Kumar was ashamed of the incident, he should immediately act against the culprits. “We stand with the women of India, we stand with the girls and their families who suffered in that shelter home,” he said.

Tejashwi Yadav demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the incident. The accused should be given exemplary punishment and steps taken to ensure this does not happen again, he said.

Recalling the Nirbhaya incident in Delhi, Kejriwal said fast-track courts should be set to award death sentence to the accused for such heinous crime. “I demand this case be probe in three months and the convicts hanged,” he said.