While the news of the wife of a BJP worker reportedly raped in Nandigram filtered in, ironically Mamata Banerjee, in not too distant location, was mouthing respect for the “mothers and sisters of this place.”
As per report, the victim’s husband, an active worker for BJP, was busy participating in the election rally of party leader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday. When he returned home, he found his wife missing.
Later, he discovered that his wife had been dumped in a canal behind his home, injured and in an unconscious state, her hands, legs, mouth tied and her saree tightly knotted around her neck. She had multiple bruises and the BJP worker said was evidence of rape.
The State unit of the BJP has accused the Trinamool-Congress party members of rape and attempt to murder.
The incident happened in Tentul Bari area in Nandigram Block No.2 in the Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal.
Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee, in a rally at Sona Chura, Nandigram, was paying respect to mothers and sisters of the region. “I could have contested from any other constituency but I have chosen Nandigram to pay my respect to the mothers and sisters of this place”.
The incident took place ahead of the upcoming polls in the Nandigram Vidhan Sabha constituency on April 1.
