Kolkata: Amid the outrage over a video from Manipur the place his get together is in energy, BJP social media chief Amit Malviya shared a clip Saturday claiming that two tribal ladies had been stripped and tortured in West Bengal’s Malda district.
The purported video shared by Malviya on Twitter reveals a number of ladies assaulting the 2 accused in a spot teeming with folks.
“The horrific incident occurred on the morning of nineteenth July. The ladies belonged to socially marginalised group and had a frenzied mob baying for her blood,” he tweeted, taking a swipe on the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Malviya additionally accused West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee of shedding “copious tears”and screaming “blue homicide” within the Manipur case, “as a result of it was politically expedient”.
The horror continues in West Bengal. Two Tribal ladies had been stripped bare, tortured and crushed mercilessly, whereas police remained a mute spectator in Pakua Hat space of Bamangola Police Station, Malda.
The horrific incident occurred on the morning of nineteenth July. The ladies… pic.twitter.com/tyve54vMmg
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) July 22, 2023
Quickly, the BJP and the ruling TMC had been caught in a confrontation over the episode that occurred at a weekly market in Malda’s Bamongola space.
Malda Superintendent of Police Pradeep Kumar Yadav, in the meantime, confirmed to the media {that a} suo moto FIR was filed and investigation is on.
The incident occurred earlier this week on the weekly market place the place 5 ladies from Manikchak had been caught stealing, in response to native media studies. Whereas three others managed to flee, two had been caught by the gang, the studies added.
In the meantime, TMC minister Shashi Panja known as it a case of theft the place the 2 girls tried to steal from the market. “A gaggle of ladies tried to take legislation and order into their palms and began beating them. Police reached the spot and a civic volunteer tried to cease the altercation, however was overpowered. The police are investigating the case,” she stated at a press briefing.
Commenting on the Manipur state of affairs, Union WCD minister Smriti Irani attacked the Congress for remaining a “mute spectator to the killings of the innocents within the state of West Bengal all as a result of it’s hungry for collaboration with the TMC”.
Equally, West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar questioned Mamata Banerjee’s silence and requested why the opposition alliance isn’t taking a stand on the Malda incident, like in Manipur’s case.
On July 21, 2023, in Malda Manikchak, two ladies had been stripped bare and subjected to medieval barbarity even within the presence of the police. Regardless of the extended incident, Mamata’s police remained mere spectators. https://t.co/qmHScOUuaq
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— BJP Bengal (@BJP4Bengal) July 22, 2023
Panja slammed the BJP, saying the opposition leaders need to “politicise every problem”. “Yesterday they unfold misinformation about Howrah and in the present day about Malda ({that a} BJP candidate was stripped and paraded bare on ballot day). It’s not a political problem, however a neighborhood one. They need to divert the eye of the folks from the Manipur incident,” the TMC minister added.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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