Sonia wins laurels for anti-rape law

Several civil liberties activists are happy with Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her intervention leading to enactment of stringent anti-rape law. In the wake of the brutal gangrape in a moving bus in the capital on the dark night of December 16, 2012, Sonia Gandhi played a proactive role. Sonia went to the girl’s residence and when the girl passed away, she went to the airport in the wee hours to receive the body. Sonia met protestors in front of her residence well past midnight and after personally collecting the telephone numbers of several of them, next morning, she surprised them all, when calls went out from her residence, inviting them for a meeting, which was attended by Rahul Gandhi.

Sonia was instrumental in the setting up of Justice J S Verma Committee. In the light of its recommendations, the government promulgated an Ordinance without loss of time and during the budget session of parliament, it was replaced with a regular Bill and passed. Grapevine has it that while ministers in the Vajpayee Government waxed eloquent with slogans of death for rapists, it was Sonia Gandhi, who made stringent anti-rape law a reality. Sonia Gandhi was extremely disturbed over the brutality of the crime and wanted exemplary punishment.