BJP MP Locket Chatterjee on Friday broke down as she spoke about an alleged incident of sexual assault faced by their party candidate at the hands of ruling TMC workers in Howrah district of West Bengal during the Panchayat election on July 8.  The BJP held a presser today after a five-member team of its women MPs from New Delhi visited Amta in West Bengal’s Howrah district to meet victims of panchayat post-poll violence on Wednesday. The team, appointed by BJP president JP Nadda, also visited violence-hit Deganga in North 24 Parganas on Tuesday where it met people whose houses were burnt down besides taking first-hand accounts of arson.


“We are women too, we want our daughters to be safe. We are also the daughters of this country. West Bengal is not outside (the country), West Bengal is within the country,” MP Locket Chatterjee said as she got emotional during the BJP presser.


“The Prime Minister spoke about the Manipur incident yesterday but he spoke for all daughters that the law and order situation in all states should be strong. She (victim) is not just Manipur’s daughter, she is India’s daughter. We want that you also talk about our (Bengal’s) daughters. Where will they go?” she remarked citing PM Narendra Modi’s comments that he delivered outside the Parliament yesterday.



Condemning Manipur incident, West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar claimed that women were targeted in a similar way in his state.


“We condemn the Manipur incident, it is a sad incident but a woman BJP worker was paraded naked in South Panchla, is it less sad than the Manipur incident? The difference is that there is no video of this incident because Mamata Banerjee's police will now allow it to be recorded,” he alleged, as quoted by news agency ANI.



Suvendu Adhikari, Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, claimed that a booth president of BJP was cremated without postmortem by police. “Our daughters are in danger in West Bengal. I have visited Panchala and the situation there is serious. We will go to court to protect every BJP worker in the state,” he remarked, as quoted by ANI.



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The team of BJP MPs handed over its report to Nadda on Thursday who said that its finding exposes the “utter state of lawlessness” in West Bengal and the state government’s “insensitivity towards political adversaries.”


“The BJP will never tolerate this oppression of the people,” he added.



Earlier, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had on July 14 claimed that 19 people, mostly from her party TMC, died in poll-related violence since the election date was announced on June 8.


“I will tell you that most of those who have died in these incidents of violence are from our party. I came here to see those who were injured in the incidents of clashes primarily in Nandigram and Khejuri. The violence that has been perpetrated by the BJP across the state is condemnable,” she said at the SSKM Hospital, as per news agency PTI.


She said the state government is providing Rs 2 lakh and jobs to the next of kin of each of those killed in the violence and Rs 50,000 to the injured.


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