NANDIGRAM: A BJP sales space president, Tapas Das, was arrested in Nandigram on Saturday following a grievance by a lady that on Friday evening a bunch of miscreants broke into her home and assaulted her for quitting BJP and becoming a member of Trinamool.
She was then dragged bare via the streets, the grievance said.
Whereas TMC has despatched a delegation to fulfill the survivor, a search is on for the opposite accused.BJP, nonetheless, claimed {that a} household dispute was being given political color.
The assault was reported in Panchanantala of Gokulnagar Gram Panchayat.
The injured girl has been admitted to Nandigram Tremendous Specialty Hospital.
The survivor alleged: “I used to be at dwelling with my son and daughter on Friday evening… about thirty to forty folks broke down the door, dragged me into the village, stripped me bare and beat me up. They dragged me a good distance and tried to kill me. They fled as cops arrived.”
“We had been as soon as with BJP however joined Trinamool earlier than the latest elections. A couple of days in the past, they beat me up and molested me within the village after which I had filed a police grievance. Friday’s incident was an try and drive me to withdraw the grievance,” she added.
BJP’s Nandigram I Block convener Abhijit Maiti mentioned: “We condemn the assault on the girl… Nonetheless, this incident has no reference to BJP. There’s a conspiracy to falsely implicate us.”
Reacting to this, Nandigram TMC functionary Sheikh Sufiyan mentioned: “The lady’s crime was that she and her husband had left BJP and joined Trinamool. They had been pressured to rejoin the BJP, and once they refused, she was stripped bare and brutally overwhelmed. We demand strict punishment for the miscreants.”
Saying {that a} TMC delegation would go to Nandigram on Sunday, former Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh demanded swift arrest of all of the accused.
