New Delhi: In a show of unity, leaders of a number of opposition parties, including Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, joined the RJD in a massive protest at Jantar Mantar here over the alleged rape of young girls at a shelter home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur and demanded that chief minister Nitish Kumar take immediate action against the accused.

Prominent leaders, who joined the protest, included Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, RJD's Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and Misa Bharti, CPM's Sitaram Yechury, CPI's D. Raja and Atul Kumar Anjan, Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav and TMC's Dinesh Trivedi.

Addressing the protesters, opposition leaders attacked the BJP and the JDU and demanded stringent punishment against those involved in such heinous crime. Rahul Gandhi said if Nitish Kumar was ashamed of the incident, he should immediately act against the culprits. "We stand with the women of India, we stand with the girls who suffered in this shelter home and their families."

Rahul said on one side was the BJP and RSS ideology and on the other, was the entire country and "this will be seen in the coming days". "India is saying that what has happened in the past four years, we do not like. When India makes up its mind, then no one can stand before it," he said.

Tejashwi, who targeted Nitish Kumar over the alleged rapes at the shelter home, demanded a probe monitored by the Supreme Court. The Bihar government has handed over the case to the CBI.