Singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya says "fat and ugly women" blaming men, denies sexual misconduct allegations

A former flight attendant had alleged that the singer sexually harassed her at a pub in Kolkata two decades ago.

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New Delhi: Bollywood singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya’s whose name has surfaced in the MeToo campaign for an alleged sexual misconduct, provided fuel to controversy as he said that those who are coming up with the stories are "attention-seeking" and "ugly" people. A former flight attendant had alleged that the singer sexually harassed her at a pub in Kolkata two decades ago. Abhijeet, however, has strongly denied the allegations and has said he has never visited a discotheque or a pub in his lifetime, in a statement to DNA. The actor who has been blamed of sexual misconduct at various instances earlier also said that he never harassed anybody neither back in 1998 nor at any other time. Making the matters worse, the singer while talking to The Indian Express, said that most of the ''fat and ugly girls'' are blaming him. He was quoted as saying: “I don’t know against whom should I take action. Why should I give attention to that person? You are giving it importance not me. Most of the people who are coming out right now are dirty, ugly people. Koi mota hai koi patla hai. No one deserves (the attention). Just to grab some attention they are coming out. Most of the fat and ugly girls are blaming and I wasn’t born at that time.” The flight attendant who has levelled the accusation on the popular singer goes by the name Bodhisattva YaMyoho on Facebook. She wrote a detailed post describing the incident. Abhijeet “Bhattacharya grabbed me by wrist and pulled me closer for refusing to dance or get intimate with him”, she wrote. She further wrote: “He twists my wrist, pulling me towards him and screaming in my ear, “B**ch what do you think of yourself, wait till I teach you a lesson", almost kissing and nibbling me on my left ear ... I pushed him and ran to the DJ console to get him to shut the music down. The flight attendant has written a long post in which she has also accused Sri Lankan cricketer Ranatunga of sexual harassment, among others.