NEW DELHI: Bahajan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Sunday joined BJP in demanding a special session of Parliament to enact a stringent law for rape and crimes against women.
Mayawati also demanded passage of the bill on quota in promotions for SCs/STs in the same session.
In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the BSP chief sought a special session to amend laws relating to crime against women to provide for stringent punishment.
As public outrage over Nirbhaya grew, BJP asked the government to convene an all-party meeting and also reiterated its demand for a special session of Parliament.
BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said she had urged home minister Sushilkumar Shinde to convene an all-party meet to "resolve the current situation" that has arisen after the brutal rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student in a moving bus last week. Shinde, however, ruled out Swaraj's demand for a special session.
Swaraj had on Saturday urged the PM to convene Parliament to amend the existing law to provide death sentence for heinous crimes against women.
Referring to Nirbhaya's case, Mayawati said such incidents were on the rise across the country, especially in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi. She targeted the Akhilesh Yadav government, blaming the SP regime for the poor law and order situation in UP. "There have been 1,500 cases of rape in UP in the last nine months," she said.
Seeking protection of women, Mayawati recalled that several leaders had supported amending the existing laws dealing with crime against women to make them more stringent.
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