WB: BJP alleges two women stripped, assaulted in Malda, TMC rubbishes saying ‘false narrative’

financialexpress.com:

Two women were stripped and assaulted by a group of women allegedly in West Bengal’s Malda district on July 19, the BJP claimed on Saturday, hitting out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for failing law and order situation in the state. The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) shot back saying that the women were beaten up by the locals as they were caught stealing.

The alleged incident took place at the Pakua Hat (weekly market) at Bamangola in Malda.

Video of the incident that has been widely shared on social media, including by BJP leaders, showed a group of women assaulting two women with slippers and tearing off their clothes. A civic police volunteer tried to save the women, but, she was too assaulted by the mob.

Sharing a video clip of the incident, Amit Malviya, BJP IT cell chief and the party’s co-observer for West Bengal, said, “The horror continues in West Bengal. Two tribal women were stripped naked, tortured and beaten mercilessly, while police remained a mute spectator in Pakua Hat area of Bamangola Police Station, Malda.”

“The horrific incident took place on the morning of 19th July. The women belonged to a socially marginalised community and had a frenzied mob baying for her blood… It had all the making of a tragedy that should have ‘broken’ Mamata Banerjee’s heart and she, instead of merely outraging, could have acted, since she is also the home minister of Bengal,” Malviya said in the Twitter post.

“But she chose to do nothing. Neither did she condemn the barbarity nor did she express pain and anguish because it would have exposed her own failing as a chief minister,” he added.

The video was also shared by West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar, who wrote, “Another horrific incident with the