The Congress stepped up attack on the BJP government Sunday over the gang-rape of a 19-year-old woman in Mahendragarh district, alleging that during its regime Haryana had become a "crime hub". Senior Congress leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala and former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda demanded that Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar resign on moral grounds.

"The insensitive and arrogant Khattar government has totally failed to control crimes against the daughters of Haryana and he has no right to continue even for a day as the CM," Surjewala alleged in a statement here. The young woman from Rewari was allegedly abducted and gangraped while she ws on her way to coaching classes and the three key accused, including an Army man, continued, to evade arrest. Hooda, who visited her family in Rewari Sunday, demanded Khattar's resignation. "Law and order in the state has broken down completely.