UP rape: Top SP leaders' bizarre remarks

After the Badaun rape case, Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi had said that Uttar Pradesh was "insensitive" and it should go.

"Insensitive, they are. I say this government should go. But, even if a new government comes, till the time we don't provide ample protection to women, what will it do?" she had said.

The SP government has been in the firing line of the opposition parties which have been citing the incident as symptomatic of "dismal" law and order situation in the state.

The state government has made big changes in the bureaucratic setup and appointed a new Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary (Home).

The two teenage girls, aged 14 and 15 years, were allegedly gangraped and murdered with their bodies found hanging from a mango tree in a village in Ushait area in Badaun, 300 km from Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow.