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After surgery, the Alwar girl is doing well, but police have yet to make any arrests in connection with a rape FIR.

“We want justice,” her uncle says as he stands in the driveway of a Jaipur hospital where a mentally challenged girl is being treated for severe wounds caused by an alleged sexual assault. “Humko insaaf milna chahiye aur jo darinde hain unko saza milni chahiye, jaldi se jaldi pakad mein aana chahiye”

The 15-year-plight old’s has sparked a political firestorm in the two days since she was discovered bleeding profusely near her private parts on a bridge in Alwar. The BJP has accused Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of ignoring the assault in a state ruled by Congress, even as she fights for the girl.

“Doctors say what occurred with ‘Nirbhaya’ (the 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim), the barbarians have perpetrated the same atrocity with her,” BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa said after visiting the hospital where the girl is being treated. He chastised police for not being able to apprehend those responsible for the assault.

The Alwar police have filed a rape complaint under the POCSO Act and the IPC Section. While medical reports and technical evidence indicated “ki ismein Pushkar ki sambhavana Nahin hai (that there is no possibility of rape in the case),” Alwar SP Tejaswani Gautam said on Friday evening that while they were still investigating, ki ismein Pushkar ki sambhavana Nahin hai.

The state BJP has launched a social media campaign in response to the incident, has called for state-wide rallies on January 17-18, and has formed a four-member committee to “examine” the affair, led by the party’s national secretary Alka Gurjar. Apart from Rajsamand MP Diya Kumari and others, members of the delegation have paid a visit to the family and will travel to Alwar on Saturday. On its route to visit Vadra, a group led by Gurjar was arrested in Sawai Madhopur on Thursday.

In a bid for damage control, the Congress has rushed its top leaders to the hospital – including Health Minister Parsadi Lal Meena, Women and Child Development Minister Mamta Bhupesh, Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Tikaram Jully, Industry Minister Shakuntala Rawat both Jully and Rawat are MLAs from Alwar.

The family, on the other hand, feels helpless in the verbal battle. “The girl’s parents cultivate vegetables and wheat on someone else’s land,” the uncle explains. It’s roughly 3 bighas, and they have to pay the owner about Rs 35,000 every year, regardless of their revenue.”