Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday slammed the BJP over alleged atrocities on minorities as she protested in the Parliament House complex along with some other opposition MPs from Kerala against the arrest of two Catholic nuns in Chhattisgarh.

Gandhi, Congress general secretary K C Venugopal, RSP MP N K Premchandran and some other Congress MPs from Kerala staged a protest near Makar Dwar of Parliament, demanding the release of the nuns. Nuns Preethi Merry and Vandana Francis along with Sukaman Mandavi were arrested at Durg railway station on July 25 following a complaint by a local Bajrang Dal functionary, who accused them of forcibly converting three girls from Narayanpur and trafficking them.

“We are demanding an end to this kind of atrocity against minorities. It is not fair at all, these are ladies..they cannot be manhandled and treated like this,” Gandhi said. Meanwhile, Congress members from Kerala in Lok Sabha on Wednesday demanded government intervention for the release of two Catholic nuns.