New Delhi: Indian Youth Congress (IYC) president Srinivas B.V. has despatched a felony defamation discover to former president of Assam IYC Angkita Dutta.
The event, introduced by the IYC, comes after Dutta took to Twitter to allege that the chief of the Congress’s youth wing had “mentally harassed” and “discriminated” towards her. In a sequence of tweets Tuesday, Dutta accused Srinivas of discriminating towards her on the idea of her gender. She additional mentioned that regardless of her complaints, no enquiry was performed towards him.
“What occurred to Priyanka Gandhi’s Ladki Hoon Lad Sakti Hoon?”, requested Dutta, referring to a marketing campaign launched by the Congress common secretary forward of final 12 months’s meeting election in Uttar Pradesh.
In one other tweet, she wrote: “I had quite a lot of religion in Rahul Gandhi and went to Jammu throughout Bharat Jodo Yatra [led by him] to appraise him of Srinivas’ harassment and demeaning use of language in direction of me. It’s April now and nonetheless no enquiry towards him”.
The IYC in Delhi has responded by stating that Dutta was questioned within the Sarada chit fund rip-off and was in “fixed contact” with Assam Chief Minister and BJP chief Himanta Biswa Sarma.
“Dr. Dutta was appointed as Vice-President of Assam PYC (Pradesh Youth Congress) in June 2018 when Shri Kamrul Islam Chaudhary was PYC President. Afterward, in accordance with decision handed by IYC for 33% reservations for girls in organisation, she was nominated as PYC Assam President in November 2021 and remained on the submit until membership of IYC was introduced in Assam to induct new leaders within the state organisation”, mentioned the IYC in an announcement.
Dutta, nonetheless, continues to establish as Assam IYC president on all her social media profiles.
The IYC assertion additional alleged that Dutta had stopped discharging her duties since elections for the state IYC had been introduced final 12 months.
“Since her tenure was over, and after the declaration of State PYC election she was not discharging her duties competently, she began elevating baseless allegations towards Nationwide Secretary Vardhan Yadav, IYC in-charge of Assam PYC which had been by no means fructified and he or she has continuously refrained herself from taking part and cooperating with the inquiry committee arrange by the IYC Management to probe the allegations made out by her. Such acts clearly displays the falsity of the fees (sic)”, the assertion mentioned.
ThePrint reached each Angkita Dutta and Srinivas B.V. for feedback on WhatsApp and Twitter, however obtained no response until the time of publication of this report.
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‘Shall be held accountable for his or her acts’
Srinivas, nonetheless, issued an announcement on Twitter Tuesday night time.
“There’s a well-known saying — when one particular person makes an accusation, verify to make certain he himself will not be the responsible one. Typically it’s these whose case is weak who take advantage of clamour. Whoever is discovered indulged in propagating/peddling false & defamatory content material will probably be held liable underneath the related legal guidelines and will probably be held accountable for his or her acts (sic)”, mentioned Srinivas.
He added: “Sorry for not having the ability to reply BJP and their Sponsored stooges earlier due to the marathon election marketing campaign in Karnataka, the place BJP is all set to lose badly. No diversion can save the BJP within the state of Karnataka.”
Srinivas has been IYC president since December 2020.
(Edited by Poulomi Banerjee)
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