Srinagar: Amid a nationwide outrage, after the CBI today arrested BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar accused of raping a minor in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao, two ministers from the party in Jammu and Kashmir, who attended a rally supporting the accused in the Kathua rape and murder case were forced to resign. Their resignation came less than 20 minutes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that no criminal would be spared.With the opposition stepping up its charge that the states were shielding perpetrators of violence against women, Modi said justice will be done to daughters of the nation.At an event to inaugurate the B.R. Ambedkar memorial in the national capital, Modi said, “I want to assure the nation that no criminal will be spared. Justice will be done. Our daughters will get justice”.Several BJP leaders hit out at the opposition for “shedding crocodile tears” on the issue of safety of women and raised the issue of other cases of violence against women involving non-BJP leaders, including a few over a decade old, in what was seen by some as whataboutery.Meanwhile, the strain heightened in the PDP-BJP alliance in Jammu and Kashmir over the alleged rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl from a nomadic Muslim community, even as two BJP ministers – Chander Prakash Ganga and Lal Singh, who courted controversy by attending a rally supporting the accused in the case, tendered their resignation to state BJP chief Sat Sharma.Sharma told PTI that a legislature party meeting of the BJP is scheduled for tomorrow in Jammu, which will take a call on their resignations.The developments came after J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti spoke with Prime Minister Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP chief Amit Shah and party general secretary Ram Madhav, PDP sources said.Mufti apprised them of the situation and requested them for their intervention to defuse the political crisis brewing in the state over the Kathua rape case, they said.Ganga and Singh had earlier hit out at the police for arresting “one or the other person at will” in connection with the case.Opposition parties National Conference and the Congress had demanded that Mufti should sack the two ministers.PDP came out with a strong statement blaming the Centre and “hawkish and communal” elements in the BJP for failing the purpose of the alliance between the two parties in the state.The rape victim had disappeared from a spot near her house in Kathua on January 10 and a week later, her body was found in the same area.A Special Investigation Team of Crime Branch, formed to probe the incident, has arrested eight people, including two special police officers (SPOs) and a head constable and a sub-inspector, who were charged with destroying evidence.