Hiran Chattopadhyay, the MLA from Kharagpur Sadar in West Bengal, mentioned on Sunday that girls ought to “arise” to the police with “sticks, brooms and knives”.
Hiran, who has been named because the Lok Sabha candidate from Ghatal by the BJP, met the household of a BJP employee, who was discovered lifeless underneath mysterious circumstances in Kharagpur on Sunday.
Talking to the media after assembly the household, Hiran mentioned, “The police have been threatening us since right this moment (Sunday) morning. I pray to the moms and sisters of West Bengal to come back out with sticks, brooms and boti (a kind of knife used to chop greens) to cease the police collectively. Else, the police will destroy West Bengal.”
The physique of the sufferer, Shantanu Ghorai, was present in a paddy subject within the Barbashi space of Kharagpur on Sunday. The BJP claimed that Ghorai was related to the occasion.
His household mentioned that he had gone lacking on Saturday evening and his physique was discovered within the subject the subsequent morning.
The BJP has demanded a CBI probe into the matter and mentioned {that a} postmortem examination of the physique will probably be performed after it.
“We’ll transfer the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom demanding a CBI probe into the matter on Tuesday (March 26). The physique will probably be despatched for post-mortem solely after that, because the West Bengal authorities can manipulate the report if the post-mortem is completed now. We is not going to get justice,” he mentioned.
“The CBI probe will reveal the names of the police personnel and the Trinamool Congress leaders concerned on this crime,” he added.
Hiran criticised the police and the native administration over the problem and mentioned that “like in Sandeshkhali”, the ladies in Kharagpur ought to come out with sticks, brooms and knives.