Bihar woman burnt alive in Vaishali; Rahul Gandhi accuses Nitish Kumar govt of 'hiding incident for electoral gains'

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked the NDA government in Bihar over a woman allegedly burnt alive and accused the Nitish Kumar dispensation of “hiding” the incident for “electoral gains”.

Along with his tweet attacking the state government, Rahul tagged a media report which claimed that the incident of burning alive a young woman in Vaishali was kept under wraps as elections were on. The woman died after fighting for life at a hospital for 15 days, the report said.

“Whose crime is more dangerous? Who did this inhuman act or the one who hid it for electoral gains so as to lay the foundation of his false ‘good governance’ over this ‘misrule’?” the former Congress chief said tweeted in Hindi.

किसका अपराध ज़्यादा ख़तरनाक है-

जिसने ये अमानवीय कर्म किया?

या

जिसने चुनावी फ़ायदे के लिए इसे छुपाया ताकि इस कुशासन पर अपने झूठे 'सुशासन' की नींव रख सके? pic.twitter.com/VDIeL19F3Q

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) November 17, 2020

According to the media report, the woman was being harassed by a man from her village who, along with his friends, allegedly burnt her alive.