PATNA, June 4 -- Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) chief Rajesh Kumar on Tuesday lambasted Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan and Hindustani Awam Morcha-Secular (HAM-S) leader Jitan Ram Manjhi for their silence over the brutal rape and murder of a nine-year-old Dalit girl in Kudhni, Muzaffarpur. Speaking at the BPCC headquarters, Sadaquat Ashram, Kumar alleged that the politics of Paswan and Manjhi, both Union ministers in the Narendra Modi government, were limited to their families. "They only seek Dalit votes to stay in power but cannot even express sympathy for the victim's family, let alone help them," Kumar said. He claimed that the law and order machinery under chief minister Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had deteriorated to its lowest point. The Dalit girl, he said, was a victim of the insensitive and autocratic system of the Bihar government. Kumar announced that a Congress delegation, led by him, would visit Muzaffarpur to meet the victim's family and assured that the party would stand firmly with them in their quest for justice. In a related development, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesman Asit Nath Tiwari, who resigned from the party on Monday over its silence on the incident, joined the Congress in front of BPCC president Rajesh Kumar on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters, Tiwari said he decided to quit the BJP after state president Dilip Jaiswal pressured him to delete a Facebook post expressing the agony of the rape victim's family. "I decided to leave a party where human compassion has no value," he said. The press conference was attended by former state Congress president Dr. Madan Mohan Jha, national secretary Shahnawaz Alam, and others....