TMC MLA Madan Mitra stirs row over Kolkata regulation scholar gang-rape case: If she hadnt gone

The first-year scholar of South Calcutta Law College was allegedly gangraped on June 25 contained in the campus by Monojit Mishra, an alumnus of the faculty. Police have arrested the prime accused and three others concerned within the crime.

Monojit Mishra, a former member of the Trinamool Congress youth wing, is the primary accused. The case has triggered a political conflict in West Bengal, with the Bharatiya Janata Party accusing the ruling get together of being a “protector of rapists.”

To add to the escalating row, TMC MLA Madan Mitra, whereas chatting with information company ANI, despatched a message to all women. He mentioned, “…if somebody calls you when the faculty is closed providing you a place within the unit, then do not go, nothing good will come of it.”

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“If that girl had not gone there, this wouldn’t have happened. If she had informed someone before going or had taken a couple of friends with her, then this wouldn’t have happened,” he acknowledged whereas referring to the rape of the regulation scholar.

Mitra additional mentioned that the accused took benefit of the scenario. “TMC TMC is a big party. Someone or the other is associated with Trinamool everywhere… We get our photos taken with everyone, but what’s inside a person, only a psychologist can tell,” he added.

The BJP had shared pictures of the prime accused, Monojit Mishra, with TMC management, together with MP Abhishek Banerjee. The get together closely criticised the Mamata Banerjee-led get together for its hyperlinks with ‘rapists’ like Mishra. 

Madan Mitra instructed ANI, “People get their photos clicked with TMC leaders and then start calling themselves TMC leaders too.”

In her criticism, the survivor had mentioned that she had gone to the campus within the night for some work when the accused requested her to remain again. He known as her exterior the Union room and proposed marriage to her, she alleged. But when the lady was making ready to depart, the accused cornered her and requested the opposite two individuals to face guard exterior.

“It was inside fraction of second…He took me close to the washroom and tried to pressure me with the intention of rousing intercourse,” the FIR learn.

Kalyan Banerjee’s ‘What could be completed?’ comment

Madan Mitra is just not the primary TMC chief to stir a row along with his remarks on the tragedy. Earlier on Friday, Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee reacted to the gangrape incident and requested, “What can be done if a friend rapes his friend?”

Banerjee had urged ladies to be cautious of individuals with such ‘soiled mindsets’.

“I’m not an advocate into the incident that occurred on the Law College however the accused needs to be arrested. Just a few males commit this sort of crime…But what could be completed if a good friend rapes his good friend. Will the Police be there in faculties? This was completed by college students to a different scholar. Who will defend her (sufferer)?” the TMC MP instructed reporters.

He additionally mentioned that such individuals ought to perceive “whom they are accompanying”.

TMC distances from Mitra, Banerjee’s remarks

The Trinamool Congress condemned the remarks made by get together leaders Kalyan Banerjee and Madan Mitra, saying that they had been of their “personal capacities”.

“The party unequivocally disassociates itself from their statements and strongly condemns the same. These views do not reflect the position of the party in any manner whatsoever.” the Mamata Banerjee-led get together wrote in a publish on X.

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It pressed on its stance of zero tolerance for crimes towards, including that it calls for the strictest potential punishment for all these concerned within the heinous crime.

BJP lambasts TMC

The Bharatiya Janata Party got here down closely on the Trinamool Congress for its chief’s ‘disgraceful’ remarks.

BJP West Bengal’s co-incharge, Amit Malviya criticised chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s “close aide Madan Mitra” for his remarks and mentioned, “This is victim-blaming, plain and vile”.

He mentioned that the ruling TMC has as soon as once more “chosen to slander the woman — not support her — just to shield a close aide of Mamata Banerjee’s nephew”.

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“Let it sink in: No woman is safe from these TMC predators; And the less said about the likes of Madan Mitra in TMC, the better. Mamata Banerjee isn’t just complicit — she is the problem,” Malviya added.

The BJP West Bengal’s X deal with additionally shared Madan Mitra’s video and criticised TMC, “From questioning the character of the rape victim in Park Street Rape case to a new low!”

“He (Mitra) effectively proves what the government once declared after RG Kar case – No women should go out alone or work at night in West Bengal!” the get together wrote.

The BJP additional mentioned that TMC’s DNA is “anti-women”, including that the get together doesn’t search justice, “they seek to sabotage women”.

“It’s a pattern. From Mamata Banerjee to Kalyan Banerjee to Kakali Ghosh Dastidar and Sashi Panja – TMC is the root cause of the rise of crimes against women in West Bengal,” it added.

Additionally, the BJP state unit additionally slammed TMC’s transfer to “disassociate” from the statements made by Kalyan Banerjee and Madan Mitra.

“Disassociation for what? TMC is a party of rape-sympathisers, rape-enablers and serial offenders,” it wrote. The BJP listed a collection of remarks made by TMC leaders, together with get together chief Mamata Banerjee, on sexual assault incidents from 2012.

It additionally listed assault incidents the place TMC leaders had been concerned, and added that “Bengal can never be safe for women until TMC is thrown out of power”.