It occurred greater than two months in the past, however video solely launched final week of a mob within the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, attacking two girls has led to outrage.

The girls had been stripped bare and paraded in public with no assist from the police.

The governing BJP can be answerable for the state – and adjustments it has made to tribal land rights have been behind the area’s current ethnic unrest.

So will this have any influence on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP, with elections subsequent 12 months?

Could it have any affect on girls’s rights in India?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests: 

Tora Agarwala – Independent journalist who covers India’s northeastern area

Mohan Krishna – Spokesperson for India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Binalakshmi Nepram – Convenor on the Northeast India Women Initiative for Peace