Sexual abuse allegations at Bengal Governor: petitioner has TMC links?

Kolkata: Following sexual harassment allegations levelled against West Bengasl Governor CV Anand Bose by a temporary lady staff in Raj Bhavan in Kolkata, the BJP and CPI(M) are raising questions over the alleged links of the woman with the Trinamool Congress, The Free Press Journal reported.

After the setback served by the Sandeshkhali protests, which originated from rampant sexual harassment and illegal land-grabbing complaints against a TMC local leader, the Mamata Banerjee-led ruling party of the state was celebrating the allegations against the Governor.

Now, the opposition in the state, BJP and CPI(M), claims that the mother of the petitioner against the Governor was a candidate for the ruling TMC, and she contested in local elections in the East Midnapore District of West Bengal in 2002. Also, East Midnapore is the native district of the complainant.

On Thursday, the woman approached the police post inside Raj Bhavan with her complaint, and officers took her to the nearest local police station where she had registered the complaint. However, Governor Bose maintained that the allegations were “engineered narratives” invoked to gain election benefits.

What needed attention is it was the CPI(M) in the state who revealed to the media that the accuser’s mother had contested for TMC in 2002 because the Left in the country is supposed to be against BJP and is allied with TMC in the INDIA bloc.

CPI(M) District Secretary in East Midnapore, Niranjan Sihi, said that he remembers everything and the current sexual harassment case is a ploy to divert attention from other burning issues like Sandeshkhali development and the loss of school jobs in the state.