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Rekha Patra, a housewife, is reportedly a sufferer of torture and harassment by now-suspended TMC chief Shajahan Sheikh and his associates. (Image/ANI)
She additionally shot off a letter to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, alleging that Bhattacharyya, the TMC nominee from Tamluk Lok Sabha seat and head of the occasion’s social media cell, made the main points of her private data and financial institution accounts public
BJP’s Basirhat candidate Rekha Patra, who had highlighted the plight of ladies in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, has lodged a grievance with the National Commission for Women in opposition to TMC nominee Debangshu Bhattacharyya for alleged violation of her privateness.
She additionally shot off a letter to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, alleging that Bhattacharyya, the TMC nominee from Tamluk Lok Sabha seat and head of the occasion’s social media cell, made the main points of her private data and financial institution accounts public.
“Recently, through a post on Debangshu Bhattacharyya’s Facebook account, the TMC candidate from Tamluk has shared the private details of my client, such as phone number, bank account details, Swasthya Sathi scheme details, as well as the Duare Sarkar scheme details, which is a clear violation of my client’s right to privacy and an outrage to her modesty by making her personal details public,” Patra’s lawyer stated within the letter. Bhattacharya claimed that Patra had availed the state-sponsored medical insurance scheme in 2021. He additionally shared a card utilized by Patra which confirmed she had attended a Duare Sarkar’ (state authorities outreach programme) on March 25, 2021, to avail the advantages of ‘Swasthya Sathi’ and ‘Lakshmir Bhandar’, a monetary help scheme for ladies.
Patra had on Thursday confirmed that she had enrolled for the state-sponsored schemes however countered as a citizen of West Bengal, she is entitled to avail of any state-sponsored welfare scheme. The BJP candidate, by means of her counsel, urged the commissions to take speedy motion in opposition to the TMC chief for “violating her right to privacy, outraging her modesty, and breaching provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Protection (Prevention of Atrocities) Act”. In response to the TMC chief’s publish, National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma criticised the TMC authorities. Is @MamataOfficial is paying from her personal pocket? That’s taxpayers cash and is for each citizen of West Bengal. Is it solely for @AITCofficial employees? And what do you imply by Delhi’s Jomidars? Is West Bengal not half of India? You individuals behave as if Momta Benarji personal the state,” Sharma.
TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose responded, criticising the NCW chairperson’s spelling error in mentioning Mamata Banerjee’s title. Would be good if the chief of the National Commission of Women knew spell the title of India’s solely girl chief minister.”, she stated in her publish. Patra, by means of her lawyer, highlighted the political opposition confronted by her since she was nominated by the BJP.
Her counsel additionally emphasised Patra’s function in main the protests in opposition to people, accused of threatening and sexually assaulting ladies in Sandeshkhali. Patra, a housewife from the troubled area of Sandeshkhali and an alleged torture sufferer within the palms of arrested TMC chief Shajahan Sheikh and his cohorts was nominated by the BJP to contest from Basirhat Lok Sabha seat, of which Sandeshkhali is part.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had just lately referred to Patra as shakti swaroopa.
