Kolkata:
BJP MP Khagen Murmu has waded into an issue over a video from his marketing campaign path displaying him kissing a lady on her cheeks. Sharing screengrabs from the viral video, the Trinamool has accused the BJP leaders of being anti-women.
”When you can’t imagine what you simply noticed, allow us to make clear. Sure, that is BJP MP & Maldaha Uttar candidate @khagen_murmu kissing a lady on his personal accord on his marketing campaign path,” stated the Trinamool.
The girl, nonetheless, referred to the incident as an ”act of affection” whereas talking to a neighborhood TV channel.
”The place’s the issue if an individual of my father’s age exhibits his affection in direction of me and crops a kiss on my cheeks? Why do folks have such a grimy mindset? There’s nothing incorrect in it,” she stated.
Mr Murmu, a former CPM MLA who joined the BJP in 2019, too justified his act saying the girl is like ”his youngster”. The incident reportedly occurred on Monday when Mr Murmu was campaigning in his Maldaha Uttar constituency.
The Trinamool, led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, additionally accused the BJP politicians of being anti-women.
When you can’t imagine what you simply noticed, allow us to make clear. Sure, that is BJP MP & Maldaha Uttar candidate @khagen_murmu kissing a lady on his personal accord on his marketing campaign path.
From MPs that sexually harass ladies wrestlers to leaders who make obscene songs about Bengali ladies, BJP… pic.twitter.com/f0PKdaDDn5
— All India Trinamool Congress (@AITCofficial) April 9, 2024
”From MPs that sexually harass ladies wrestlers to leaders who make obscene songs about Bengali ladies, BJP camp has no dearth of anti-women politicians. That is how Modi Ka Parivar engages in Nari Ka Samman! Think about what they’d do in the event that they got here to energy,” the celebration added.
It was referring to former wrestling physique chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a BJP MP accused of sexual assault by ladies wrestlers, and Pawan Singh, a former BJP candidate from Asansol who stop the competition after his songs have been criticized for allegedly having objectionable references to Bengali ladies.