Kolkata Rape-Homicide Case: In a heated trade over ladies’s security, the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) on Friday referred to as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee a ‘liar’ and demanded she places ahead an evidence for her authorities’s failure to implement stringent protections for girls. This sharp rebuke comes after Banerjee’s letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, wherein she advocated for harder central legal guidelines and quicker judicial proceedings for heinous crimes like rape and homicide. Amit Malviya, BJP’s co-incharge for West Bengal, accused Banerjee of not solely neglecting current authorized frameworks but in addition failing to ascertain fast-track courts to handle these critical points.
7 rapes (principally minors) and in some circumstances murders too, reported from Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal in final 48 hours….
However in final 48 hours, Mamata Banerjee has been engaged in each deplorable act, {that a} civilised Chief Minister can be ashamed of – from issuing open letters… pic.twitter.com/009JvQx3ld
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) August 30, 2024
Lately, Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reiterating her request for stringent central laws and exemplary punishment on heinous crimes like rape and homicide. She additionally sought obligatory provision for time-bound disposal of circumstances of rape/rape and homicide. “It’s incumbent on Mamata Banerjee to elucidate why the West Bengal authorities hasn’t performed something for implementing the stringent guidelines and rules, which exist for shielding ladies and women,” BJP co-incharge for West Bengal Amit Malviya stated in a publish on X.
Mamata Banerjee is a LIAR.
Smt Annapurna Devi, Union Minister of Ladies and Baby Growth, responded to West Bengal Chief Minister on 25th Aug 2024.
In her letter, in level 4, she particularly mentions West Bengal Govt NOT establishing even a single Quick Monitor Courtroom for… https://t.co/mtNgQNLlnx pic.twitter.com/bu2Tf9Ptm2
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) August 30, 2024
“Cease writing letters. Reply the questions. You’re accountable,” he added. In her letter, Banerjee stated that she was but to obtain a reply from the prime minister on the difficulty that she had flagged in her earlier letter to him. The chief minister, nevertheless, stated that she obtained a communication from the Union Ladies and Baby Growth (WCD) minister Annapurna Devi.
Sustaining that the letter by the WCD minister “barely attends the gravity of the difficulty” raised by her, Banerjee wrote, “The seriousness of the topic and its relevance to the society haven’t been adequately appreciated whereas sending out this generic reply.”
Banerjee, in her letter to the PM, talked about that 88 fast-track particular courts and 62 POCSO-designated courts are already functioning in West Bengal on state funding. Reacting sharply, Malviya stated, “Mamata Banerjee is a Liar”.
“Annapurna Devi, Union Minister of Ladies and Baby Growth, responded to West Bengal Chief Minister on August 25, 2024. In her letter, in level 4, she (the WCD minister) particularly mentions West Bengal authorities not establishing even a single quick observe court docket for addressing rape and POCSO associated circumstances,” the BJP chief stated. He additionally posted on X a duplicate of the WCD minister’s letter to the West Bengal chief minister. Malviya stated that as many as seven circumstances of rape, principally of minors, and in some circumstances murders too have been reported in West Bengal within the final 48 hours.
“However within the final 48 hours, Mamata Banerjee has been engaged in each deplorable act – {that a} civilised chief minister can be ashamed of – from issuing open letters to clarifications, from threatening and abusing medical doctors to inciting nationwide arson,” he stated in one other publish on X.
He referred to as Banerjee a “failed Residence and Well being Minister” of the state and alleged that she is preoccupied with suppressing evidences of her corruption and incompetence within the RG Kar Hospital rape-and-murder case.
“However, sufficient is sufficient. The woke up conscience of Bengal now requires accountability,” the BJP chief added.
