New Delhi, April 28 -- Congress launched an attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government on Tuesday, alleging a systematic rise in atrocities against Dalits, other backward classes (OBC), and women across BJP-ruled states.

At a party briefing held at the All India Congress Committee office in New Delhi, Rajendra Pal Gautam, chairman of the party's SC department, referred to the alleged rape and murder of a teenage girl from the Vishwakarma community in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh. He claimed that a day earlier, police stopped him, former UP Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu and former MP Ravi Verma at the Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport in Babatpur Varanasi, while the Congress delegation was on its way to meet the vi...