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 at the same time as its slugfest continued with BJP-led opposition over ladies’s security in Bengal lower than a 12 months 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 12 months.Mitra had remarked Saturday that girls shouldn’t go to a “closed college if someone calls” – feedback that have been seen as downplaying the gravity of the rape wherein 4 accused have been arrested. This consists of 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 have been private opinions of Mitra and Banerjee and the get together didn’t agree with them in any manner.A two-member National Commission for Women crew on Sunday visited South Kolkata Law College, the place the alleged gang-rape occurred on June 25. The crew, led by Archana Majumdar, was not allowed into the crime spot, nor was videography permitted.
