TMC pulls up 2 netas over rape remarks | India News

KOLKATA: Trinamool on Sunday show-caused MLA Madan Mitra and censured MP Kalyan Banerjee for controversial remarks on the alleged gang-rape of a scholar at a Kolkata legislation faculty final week whilst its slugfest continued with BJP-led opposition over girls’s security in Bengal lower than a yr after the rape-murder at RG Kar hospital.TMC president Subrata Bakshi despatched the discover to Mitra, instructing him to reply inside three days over his “unsolicited, unnecessary, and insensitive comments that severely damaged the party’s image”. Assembly polls are due in Bengal subsequent yr.Mitra had remarked Saturday that ladies mustn’t go to a “closed college if someone calls” – feedback that had been seen as downplaying the gravity of the rape by which 4 accused have been arrested. This contains Monojit Mishra, the prime suspect with hyperlinks to TMC’s scholar wing.Banerjee had additionally made a controversial assertion, asking on Friday “if a friend rapes another friend, how will govt authorities provide protection in such cases?” TMC distanced itself from each feedback, saying they had been private opinions of Mitra and Banerjee and the celebration didn’t agree with them in any method.A two-member National Commission for Women group on Sunday visited South Kolkata Law College, the place the alleged gang-rape occurred on June 25. The group, led by Archana Majumdar, was not allowed into the crime spot, nor was videography permitted.