New Delhi: BJP MP Locket Chatterjee Friday broke down at a press convention and mentioned the West Bengal panchayat elections have been “nothing however a shameful part of violence and atrocities in opposition to ladies”, recounting alleged incidents of sexual assault on ladies candidates.
The Hooghly MP mentioned that on 8 July, the day of panchayat elections, a gram sabha candidate of the BJP was stripped bare inside a polling sales space and molested in Howrah’s Panchla city.
The MP additional mentioned that when Prime Minister Narendra Modi had spoken on the Manipur case, he had additionally requested different states to strengthen regulation and order. She was referring to the PM’s remarks made a day after a purported video of two ladies being paraded bare by a gaggle of males in Manipur went viral on social media.
#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
— ANI (@ANI) July 21, 2023
Chatterjee’s press convention comes a day after Modi made the remarks as a part of his handle forward of the monsoon session of Parliament.
The BJP MP questioned the “silence” of not simply West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, but additionally Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Sonia Gandhi.
“Congress has additionally joined arms with Mamata Banerjee now. That’s the reason each Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi are silent. These folks cry in different states, however they’re silent in West Bengal,” Chatterjee mentioned.
She added: “We’re additionally ladies. We’re additionally the daughters of this nation. West Bengal can also be a part of India. We additionally need to save our daughters. We wish you to speak in regards to the daughters of our area too.”
Calling the Manipur incident “extremely unlucky”, she mentioned: “We condemn it. However what has occurred in West Bengal is equally shameful. The elections held in West Bengal haven’t been panchayat elections however ‘khoon ka chunaav’. These elections have been nothing however a shameful part of violence and atrocities in opposition to ladies.”
The MP began crying whereas addressing the press convention and urged folks to “concentrate in the direction of the daughters of West Bengal too”.
An ANI report Friday quoted West Bengal DGP Manoj Malviya as saying that the police investigated the alleged assault of the BJP candidate, however discovered no proof.
ANI additionally carried an interview of the alleged sufferer.
West Bengal | “They dragged me exterior the polling sales space holding my hair & threw me down the steps. Additionally they ripped my garments. Later, I went to a close-by home to borrow garments to put on. Had my husband not been current there they might have finished something to me. He saved me. I… pic.twitter.com/jg5XR43qS2
— ANI (@ANI) July 21, 2023
‘No video as a result of everybody had weapons of their arms’
In response to Chatterjee, on 11 July, the day of counting in Domjur, a candidate from Mamata’s TMC was additionally assaulted. “She filed an FIR too. However there isn’t a video as a result of folks have been carrying weapons contained in the sales space. Will we solely speak about such points when a video goes viral? Why is all people conserving mum in these circumstances?”
Coming down closely on Mamata, Chatterjee mentioned plenty of violence and circumstances of atrocities in opposition to ladies are going unreported in Bengal. “Regardless of being a girl chief minister, Mamata Banerjee isn’t stopping the atrocities on ladies,” she mentioned as she burst into tears.
Elaborating on the alleged incident of sexual assault of a BJP gram sabha candidate, she mentioned “there isn’t a video as a result of everybody who was current there had weapons of their arms”.
BJP’s West Bengal chief Sukanta Majumdar in the meantime mentioned: “The incident that occurred in Manipur could be very unhappy, we strongly condemn it, such incident shouldn’t occur anyplace. However in Bengal’s South Panchla, a girl member of the BJP was paraded bare for contesting the panchayat elections. Is that this much less unhappy than Manipur?”
“The one distinction is that it doesn’t have a video. As a result of Mamata Banerjee’s police and goons don’t enable anybody to make movies,” he alleged.
Quickly after her press convention, the BJP held one other press convention highlighting circumstances of atrocities in the direction of ladies in Rajasthan.
“In response to media reviews, 17 to 18 rape incidents are taking place in Rajasthan on daily basis and about 5 to 7 homicide circumstances are registered on daily basis,” mentioned Union Minister Gajendra Shekhawat.
He added: “When a girl MLA of Congress is questioned about incidents of atrocities on ladies in Rajasthan, she says that ‘even I’m not secure despite the fact that I stay in safety’.”
(Edited by Gitanjali Das)
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