Meenakshi Lekhi to raise issue of violence against women in Bengal

5 Dariya News

Kolkata 04-Feb-2016

The BJP's national spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi on Thursday said she would soon write to the union home ministry about the "rising violence" against women in Trinamool Congress-ruled West Bengal."I will soon write to the union home ministry and also request our party's Mahila Morcha to pen a complaint to the National Commission for Women about the rising incidents of rape and molestation in the state," Lekhi told media persons here.She said it was a "shame" that incidents of atrocities on women were going up in the state despite the chief minister being a woman.

She alleged that the Trinamool was presiding over a regime of psychological terror. "They are using terror to curb political activities of opposition parties."Lekhi also described the alleged assault on a Tanzanian woman in Bengaluru as an instance of "racial attack". She said Congress president Sonia Gandhi should have acted fast and asked Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to step down.Lekhi pooh-poohed the Karnataka government's claim that the woman was not paraded in the buff."Denying of facts cannot change the truth. It is nothing but a case of racial discrimination," she said, wondering why women were "so unsafe" in states ruled by non-BJP parties.