File pictureNew Delhi: Having led a successful midnight candle march, an aggressive Rahul Gandhi on Friday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his silence and tell the nation why rapists and murders were being protected. The Congress chief thanked people from different sections of society for responding to his midnight vigil to wake up what the Congress described as "the sleeping chowkidar". "Mr Prime Minister, your silence is unacceptable. India is waiting," Rahul tweeted, hours before Modi finally broke his silence on Friday evening. Arguing that the issue was not rape but the attitude of the governments and the law-enforcing agencies, Singhvi said: "Why didn't the Prime Minister, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Ajay Bisht and J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti speak about the incidents despite a national outcry?"

Source: The Telegraph April 13, 2018 21:00 UTC