Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with a group of other Congress MPs will visit Hathras today afternoon.

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with a group of other Congress MPs will visit Hathras today afternoon. In a press statement issued by the party, the Congress has claimed that Rahul Gandhi will lead a delegation to Hathras to meet with the 19-year-old rape victim’s family to “hear their grievances.”

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi

“Congress MPs under the leadership of former Congress President Rahul Gandhi will go to Hathras today afternoon to meet the grieving family of the 19-year-old daughter of Uttar Pradesh, who was brutally assaulted, murdered & the body cremated surreptitiously in the middle of night by Yogi Adityanath led BJP Government.

The Congress delegation will meet the family members to hear their grievances and demand justice for the victim and her family who have been denied justice and severely traumatized by the BJP Government in their desperate attempt to hide the truth of the heinous crime perpetrated on the victim,” the party statement read.

Rahul GandhiOn Thursday amid high drama, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were detained by UP police under Section 188 on their way to Hathras.

Congress Leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi were stopped on a highway connecting Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. The leaders have alleged they were not only stopped but also lathicharged and "pushed to the ground".