The campaigning for the West Bengal assembly election is getting more about exchanges, accusations and counter-accusations between the main parties in the fray, which are TMC & BJP.
On his comment on forming anti-romeo squads in West Bengal, Adityanath got a retort from TMC MP Mohua Moitra.
MP Moitra in a tweet castigated the UP CM, using his lesser-known name stating, “Latest from Ajay Bisht aka YogiCM: “Anti-Romeo squads in Bengal if BJP is voted in. Gudduji- Unlike your ilk, we Bengalis are lovers at heart! We like our music, our poetry, our mishti & yes, our Romeos too!””
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At a rally on Thursday, in Krishnarampur in Hooghly, Adityanath had stated, “To safeguard the interests of sisters and daughters, BJP will create Uttar Pradesh-like anti-Romeo squads in Bengal and put all TMC Romeos behind bars.”
The TMC MP had stirred the parliament in early February over her attack at the BJP-led government and an ex-Chief Justice who had expunged himself of charges of sexual assault before moving to Rajya Sabha.
In her latest attack on Yogi, Moitra planted her argument in the romanticist cultural vibrance of Bengal symbolized by the music & poetry.
Stats of UP on crimes against women
It is worthwhile to note that the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) positions Uttar Pradesh as the most unsafe for Women. In this context, the Badaun incident occurred within a few months after a Dalit lady from Hathras was purportedly assaulted by four men on September 14. The Hathras victim passed away on September 29 at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital and the victim in the Badaun incident died due to severe injuries and blood loss caused by the accused with her body dumped at the doorsteps of the anxious family in the dead of the night.
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In 2016, Uttar Pradesh had the most elevated number of crimes against women. While the state recorded 14.5% of the absolute instances of violations against women, it represented 12.4% of the total number of rape cases.
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The 2017 statistics highlights the poor law and order circumstances in the nation with 3.59 lakh instances of crimes revealed against women. Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest number of crimes against women with 56,011 cases, while Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest number of rape cases at 5562.
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The 2017 Unnao rape case in the Bharatiya Janata Party- ruled Uttar Pradesh shook the nation. The party legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar was charge-sheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the case. Uttar Pradesh was trailed by Maharashtra with 31,979 cases and West Bengal with 30,002 cases.
The first three of the total eight phases of West Bengal’s assembly elections are now over and the electorate in 91 constituencies have already cast their votes. A total of 44 seats will go to the polls on April 10 for the fourth phase. Vote counting and declaration of the result of the election are scheduled for May 02.
