The Trinamool Congress continued its relentless attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah for having failed to contain the situation in Manipur wondering when they would explain their conducts vis a vis the condition of the women in the Northeastern State.
Alleging that in yet another case an eighteen year old girl was subjected to brutalities the Bengal ruling outfit on its twitter handle wrote on Sunday that they had reports of the girl being handed over to four armed men who later subjected her to gang rape.
The incident took place in East Manipur district on May 15, days after three women were paraded naked by rioters, a video of which went viral triggering waves of criticism throughout the country.
The TMC wrote, “The tragedy doesn’t end for Manipur! An 18 year old girl was handed over to four armed men by women vigilantes. She was later assaulted and gang-raped in Imphal East in Manipur on May 15,” adding “If such brutal cases are coming in the public eye after more than a month, what's still hidden must be truly gruesome.”
Holding the Prime Minister, Home Minister and the BJP’s communal politics responsible for the ongoing situation in the Northeastern State, the party wondered when the Prime Minister and his government would take accountability for whatever was happening in Manipur.
“When will PM Narendra Modi, HM Amit Shah and (Manipur) Chief Minister N BirenSingh take accountability for the complete law and order failure?” the statement read. Meanwhile there was more political slugfest in post-panchayat poll Bengal where the BJP on Sunday sent yet another central fact-finding team led by its MP Vinod Sonkar who on Sunday visited parts of Hooghly district meeting the victims of TMC violence at Tarakeshwar, Arambagh etc.
“We have come here to see how the BJP men have been attacked, killed and injured, their houses looted, and they were banished from their villages … most of them are taking shelter in the party offices … this is a shame and we are seeing that shame that Mamata didi has perpetrated in Bengal and particularly the SC and STs with our own eyes … we will submit reports to our party president JP Nadda and other appropriate places,” the leaders in the delegation said.
Reacting to the BJP central team’s visit, TMC MP Shantanu Sen said that “such delegations are a regular affair in Bengal … they have sent 190-195 such fact finding teams but have been able to do nothing … they are just trying to remain afloat in the State politics because
the BJP’s vote percentage has suffered a good 16 percent fall --- from 38 percent in 2021 to 22 percent in 2023 they … they are just trying to remain relevant in the State politics.”
The TMC leader also asked as to why no central fact finding team was not visiting MP, UP or for that matter Manipur where atrocities on people and particularly women have breached the ceiling.
“They are talking about attacks on the tribal people in Bengal … but it is the same BJP which did not invite President Droupadi Murmu, a tribal woman, in the inauguration of the new Parliament building … it is the same BJP, one of whose leaders publicly urinated in the face of a tribal man in Madhya Pradesh … they have no face to raise such issues,” he said.
Meanwhile, CPI(M) State secretary Md Salim hit out at the BJP and the TMC for trying to create a binary in Bengal with the help of the media.
“The BJP is a spent force … they are almost gone … despite having 18 MPs and 70 MLAs --- some of who are regular travelers between the BJP and TMC --- they have managed to get only 22 percent votes whereas the Left has done remarkably well even in the face of massive violence to poll 21 percent votes … it is out of this fear that these two parties are trying to create a binary with the help of the media to count us out … but they will not succeed in their game plan,” he said.