New Delhi: The Congress Saturday expelled its former Youth Congress chief in Assam, Angkita Dutta, for alleged anti-party actions after she accused nationwide Youth Congress chief Srinivas B.V. of “psychological harassment” and “discrimination” on the premise of gender.
Srinivas, president of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) since 2020, had thereafter despatched a defamation discover to Dutta after which the Assam Congress had additionally issued a present trigger discover to her. Dutta, too, has filed a criticism on the Dispur Police Station in opposition to Srinivas and recorded her assertion earlier than a Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace (CJM) court docket Friday.
In response to Dutta’s allegations, a press launch by the IYC in Delhi claimed that she was embroiled within the Saradha Chit fund rip-off and had shut ties with Assam’s BJP Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. They additional alleged that she was on her strategy to the BJP.
Chatting with the media Saturday, Himanta Biswa Sarma mentioned: “When this challenge got here earlier than us, we informed Congress that it’s their inner matter and they need to resolve it. When it’s the query of a daughter’s honour, taking motion is the correct factor to do, whoever they could be. However I got here to know that Congress has expelled her. They didn’t resolve the difficulty. If the occasion doesn’t do it, the regulation must resolve it.”
Sarma had Friday evening damaged his lengthy silence on the controversy because it got here to the fore Monday.
Chatting with the media final evening, he had referred to as Angkita “the daughter of Assam” and added that the “method the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee has tackled this matter (was) unhappy”.
“They (Assam Congress) are considering that she has given a flawed assertion and the IYC President is correct. I might have been completely satisfied if the Assam Congress talks in favour of her. However what we see is totally reverse,” he mentioned.
In its notification expelling Dutta, the Congress’ Disciplinary Motion Committee mentioned that she would stay expelled for six years for her “anti-party” actions.
BJP chief and in-charge of its IT cell, Amit Malviya, used the difficulty to hit out on the Congress, mocking the ‘Ladki Hoon, Ladd Sakti Hoon’ (I’m a lady, I can struggle) slogan coined by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
“That is Congress’s mannequin of girls empowerment! Sack the lady who alleged harassment as an alternative of offering a platform to listen to her grievances. The style during which Angkita Dutta has been faraway from the Congress is uninspiring for ladies”, mentioned Malviya in a tweet.
(Edited by Zinnia Ray)
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