A day after in Manipur where two women from Kuki tribe were paraded naked and allegedly gang-raped, a similar incident has been reported from neighbouring West Bengal, where a female BJP gram sabha candidate of a political party claimed that she was ‘stripped naked’ and ‘paraded’ by Trinamool Congress workers on 8 July when Panchayat polls were held.As per the complaint, the woman alleged that she was beaten up by about 40 Trinamool miscreants in Panchla area of Howrah district when the Panchayat polls in West Bengal were underway.
“I was hit on the chest and head with a stick and I was thrown out of the polling station,” the BJP worker said. While some of these men were hitting me Himanta Roy instigated Ali Sheikh and Sukamal Panja to tear my saree and inner dress. They further assaulted me and force undress me to naked and molested me in front of other people,” the FIR added.The woman also alleged that TMC workers tore off her clothes, stripped her naked and paraded her in the entire village. They molested me in front of everyone and even touched me inappropriately,” she claimed. Bengal BJP’s co-incharge Amit Malviya attacked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the incident and asked her to take moral responsibility for “this depravity and step down immediately”.