KOLKATA: A BJP MLA has “fastened” Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee‘s “price at Rs 25 lakh” and requested her to take the cash and get out of Bengal “with a molla (Muslim)”, touchdown his occasion in an unseemly controversy.
“Your price is Rs 25 lakh,” BJP MLA from Onda in Bankura district, Amarnath Shakha, informed a gathering in his constituency on Wednesday whereas demanding Banerjee’s resignation and speaking in regards to the lapses within the Bengal administration following the R G Kar Medical School and Hospital rape and homicide.
“You pay money for a molla and depart, we can pay you Rs 25 lakh,” he added.
An unapologetic Shakha defined his “logic” to TOI afterward Wednesday. “She (Banerjee) has fastened completely different compensation quantities for various folks. It’s Rs 50,000 for some, Rs 1 lakh for another person. She even tried to supply Rs 10 lakh to the R G Kar physician’s household,” he stated.
Senior govt officers stated rape compensation claims had been mandated by the Felony Regulation (Modification) Act of 2013 and the apex courtroom’s verdict within the Nipun Saxena case in 2018.
Shakha’s remarks got here three months after BJP’s Tamluk MP and former Calcutta HC decide Abhijit Gangopadhyay requested at an election rally whether or not the Bengal CM’s value was Rs 10 lakh. TMC had moved the EC then.
“Your price is Rs 25 lakh,” BJP MLA from Onda in Bankura district, Amarnath Shakha, informed a gathering in his constituency on Wednesday whereas demanding Banerjee’s resignation and speaking in regards to the lapses within the Bengal administration following the R G Kar Medical School and Hospital rape and homicide.
“You pay money for a molla and depart, we can pay you Rs 25 lakh,” he added.
An unapologetic Shakha defined his “logic” to TOI afterward Wednesday. “She (Banerjee) has fastened completely different compensation quantities for various folks. It’s Rs 50,000 for some, Rs 1 lakh for another person. She even tried to supply Rs 10 lakh to the R G Kar physician’s household,” he stated.
Senior govt officers stated rape compensation claims had been mandated by the Felony Regulation (Modification) Act of 2013 and the apex courtroom’s verdict within the Nipun Saxena case in 2018.
Shakha’s remarks got here three months after BJP’s Tamluk MP and former Calcutta HC decide Abhijit Gangopadhyay requested at an election rally whether or not the Bengal CM’s value was Rs 10 lakh. TMC had moved the EC then.
