Kolkata: A BJP fact-finding team on Friday met the family members of the minor girl, who was allegedly gang-raped earlier in the month, at Hanskhali in Nadia district and failed to ensure the safety of women in the state. Reprimanded the state administration for staying. state.
Party sources said the team members spoke to family members and local people.
He will submit his report to BJP national president JP Nadda, who had constituted a fact-finding committee earlier this week.
Sources said that the party’s vice-president Rekha Verma, BJP Mahila Morcha national president Vanathi Srinivasan, party leader Khushboo Sundar and West Bengal MLA Srirupa Mitra Choudhary are included in the party.
Verma told reporters after meeting the family members, “The atrocities against women in West Bengal are beyond words. A minor girl was brutally raped and murdered. This proves that the administration is a woman. It is a shameful incident.” ,
Echoing them, Mitra Choudhary said the team spoke to the victim’s mother and criticized West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for making an “irresponsible statement” on it.
“The Chief Minister who is herself a woman, is making irresponsible statements instead of ensuring that the victim’s family gets justice. Is this expected from the Chief Minister? The victim’s mother narrated the family’s ordeal. What kind of threats and threats were made to the members. It is unimaginable to face,” he said.
A 14-year-old girl was killed after she was allegedly gang-raped by the son of a ruling TMC panchayat leader in Hanskhali on April 4. Her family filed a police complaint on April 10, claiming that the girl’s body was snatched and cremated. The victim’s family had also alleged that the accused’s family had threatened them of dire consequences.
The Calcutta High Court handed over the investigation to the CBI.
Responding to Verma’s remarks, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh termed the allegations as “baseless”.
“Women of the state are safe and secure in West Bengal under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee. The BJP is ready to send teams to West Bengal, but does not bother to send similar teams to Uttar Pradesh, where Hathras and Unnao were raped. cases had come to the fore.” ” He added.
Ghosh said the intention of the fact finding team was to defame the state and influence the ongoing CBI probe.
“The purpose of this fact-finding committee is to lay down guidelines for the central agency as to how the investigation should be conducted and how the state government should be charged. Some incidents have happened and they are blaming the TMC for it. It seems That they are yet to digest. Their defeat in the last West Bengal assembly election,” he said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on April 11 had publicly expressed doubts over the cause of death of the minor girl, who was held responsible for the gang rape by her family.
She had claimed that the victim was in a relationship with the main accused and wondered whether she was pregnant, a remark that was strongly criticized by opposition parties. Banerjee also thought that she died after being slapped by someone.