NEW DELHI: Amid nationwide outrage over the May 4 video exhibiting a mob attacking and stripping two tribal ladies in Manipur, Bengal BJP MP Locket Chatterjee on Friday broke down recalling related incidents throughout the panchayat polls within the Mamata Banerjee-ruled state. The BJP MP, who was addressing a press convention, was seen crying as recalled quite a lot of instances of heinous crime in opposition to ladies, together with alleged disrobing, throughout and after the West Bengal panchayat polls.
An emotional Chatterjee was moved to tears as she spoke about these incidents. “The West Bengal chief minister is silent despite being a woman. You tell us where we will go. We also want our daughters to be saved,” she stated crying. “We are also daughters of the country. West Bengal is also part of the country,” Chatterjee stated, attempting to compose herself.
“West Bengal is no different. The situation in Manipur also prevails in West Bengal,” she advised reporters.
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#WATCH | BJP MP Locket Chatterjee breaks down as she recounts an alleged incident of sexual assault by TMC employees of a BJP candidate throughout Panchayat polls on eighth July in Howrah district of West Bengal pic.twitter.com/45VdDGqDXi
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Hitting out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, she stated ladies are being “disrobed” and paraded within the state whereas she is observing ‘Martyrs’ Day’.
Addressing reporters, West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar stated that he condemns what occurred in Manipur, a reference to the viral May 4 video of two ladies being paraded bare within the violence-hit northeastern state.
He claimed that related crimes are occurring in Bengal as nicely. The solely distinction is that incidents in Bengal weren’t recorded on digicam, he stated, citing a number of alleged incidents.
A girl was disrobed and assaulted in a polling sales space throughout the current panchayat election in West Bengal, the 2 BJP leaders alleged.
Both leaders condemned the incident in Manipur however requested if movies of comparable crimes in West Bengal wanted to go viral for folks to concentrate to the scenario there. A TMC chief was concerned in one of many assaults, they claimed.
Addressing the Trinamool Congress’ annual ‘Martyrs’ Day’ rally in Kolkata, social gathering supremo and Bengal Chief Minister Banerjee continued her tirade in opposition to the BJP-led Union authorities over the Manipur scenario, saying the BJP’s ‘Beti Bachao’ scheme has now became ‘Beti Jalao’.
The TMC has been organising the rally for a few years in reminiscence of 13 Congress supporters who had been shot lifeless in police firing in 1993 throughout a march to the state secretariat – Writers Buildings – when the CPI(M)-led Left Front was in energy within the state.
