Congress walkout over Chhattisgarh girls’ trafficking
July 29th, 2009 - 12:04 am ICT by IANS
Raipur, July 28 (IANS) The opposition Congress staged a walkout Tuesday in the Chhattisgarh assembly, accusing the state’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of doing little to prevent trafficking of thousands of youth, mainly girls, from poor families to metros.
The house witnessed a heated debate when the government replied in the assembly it was doing its best to trace out an estimated 7,000 people missing in the state for many years.
This prompted Congress legislator and former home minister Nandkumar Patel to ask the government to explain how thousands of girls, mainly from Raigarh and Jashpur districts, were missing. He alleged that the government had failed to contain a racket in trafficking minor girls.
Giving statistics of the past nine years, the government informed the house that 39,549 out of a total 46,860 missing persons were traced out and restored to their families by police, but some 7,000 people, including several girls, were still missing.
Accusing government of doing nothing for stopping thousands of poverty-hit families minor girls being smuggled to metros and even outside the country, the Congress walked out of the house.
Not satisfied with this, the Congress legislators staged a walkout.
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Tags: bharatiya janata party, bjp government, home minister, legislator, legislators, minor girls, missing persons, nine years, opposition congress, poor families, poverty, raigarh, statistics, trafficking, walkout
