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Senior Trinamool leaders, specified arsenic Shashi Panja and Kunal Ghosh, launched an onslaught connected Saturday (October 25, 2025) targeting BJP leaders for crimes against women successful BJP-ruled States. The enactment leaders raised the contented of the death of a woman doctor successful Maharashtra following an alleged intersexual assault, as good arsenic the harassment of two international women cricketers successful Indore.
The remarks travel astatine a clip erstwhile the ruling enactment successful West Bengal is facing disapproval implicit a series of assaults on women successful the State.
Shashi Panja, the Minister of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare of West Bengal, on Saturday (October 25) said that atrocities against women were tragic careless of the spot they happened. However, she said that BJP leaders resorted to selective outrage during specified instances. “No 1 seems to beryllium raising their dependable successful Maharashtra. No uproar, nary outrage. We person not seen a azygous connection from the Maharashtra Chief Minister. Where is the Maharashtra State Women’s Commission?” Ms. Panja said.
Commenting connected the issue, MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar said, “Selective outrage is the BJP’s favourite governance tool.” Tagging the BJP, the National Commission for Women, and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis successful a station connected the societal media level X, she asked “Why justness ends wherever their powerfulness begins?”
The All India Trinamool Congress’ (AITMC) authoritative leafage connected societal media besides made aggregate posts criticising the atrocities against women successful BJP-ruled States. “Every clip an unfortunate incidental occurs successful Bengal, @BJP4India unleashes its full machinery to alteration it into a grotesque spectacle of governmental mudslinging. But erstwhile horrors unfold successful their ain backyard, a deafening soundlessness prevails,” an authoritative station from the AITMC grip connected X said. It besides added that the “Beti Bachao” slogan was a facade to screen up the BJP’s ain faults.
Furthermore, elder Trinamool spokesperson and erstwhile Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh also came down heavy connected the BJP enactment for the attack on the 2 women cricketers successful Indore successful Madhya Pradesh. He said the incident had brought shame to India connected the planetary stage. “This is an planetary signifier of cricket wherever planetary players are playing successful the ICC Women’s World Cup, and determination successful the wide daylight, women players are being harassed... The BJP has tarnished the representation of India connected the satellite stage... This is what the “Double-Engine” authorities does,” Mr. Ghosh said connected X.
The remarks by the Trinamool Congress travel intimately connected the heels of BJP leaders heavily criticising the ruling enactment successful West Bengal for failing to protect women. A bid of assaults connected women successful West Bengal successful October unsocial had sparked the heated governmental debate. “Now, everyone is successful the Trinamool; each the miscreants person gone and picked up the Trinamool emblem to enactment safe. They cognize that erstwhile they person blessings from the Trinamool, they can’t beryllium held accountable,” said State BJP president and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya connected October 23.
The bid of attacks included a minor girl who was sexually assaulted astatine the State Government’s SSKM Medical College and Hospital successful Kolkata connected October 22. Separately, a pistillate caregiver was physically assaulted by a drunken antheral astatine a Primary Health Centre successful Birbhum connected the aforesaid day, leaving her severely injured. On October 20, a pistillate doc was assaulted by a patient’s household astatine the Uluberia Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Government Medical College and Hospital successful Howrah district.
At the opening of October, a pistillate aesculapian pupil from Odisha was sexually assaulted adjacent her aesculapian assemblage successful Durgapur by a radical of men.
