Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Saturday criticised the Congress government in Rajasthan over the gangrape of a Dalit woman on April 26. The rape occurred in Alwar district and has provoked additional outrage for the police's allegedly delayed reaction to the victim's complaint.

The woman had informed authorities of the crime on April 30, but the police failed to act on it till May 7, leading her husband to claim they did so because of the election. The state voted across two phases — April 29 and May 6 — of the 2019 Lok Sabha election.