Mamata Banerjee clarifies her statement on West Bengal rape horror

Banerjee’s remarks about the student leaving the campus at night had triggered outrage.

The recent West Bengal gang-rape horror has spread shockwaves across the nation. The Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee’sremarks about the student leaving the campus at night have sparked outrage. However, she clarifies the same.

Mamata Banerjee accuses the media of distorting her words.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday accused the media of distorting her words after criticism of her comments on the alleged gang-rape of a medical student in Durgapur. The CM of West Bengal, according to ANI, “The media distorted my words. You ask me a question, I answer it, and then you distort it. Do not try this kind of politics.”

Mamata Banerjee earlier had made remarks on the matter.

Earlier in the day, Mamata Banerjee’s comments about the student leaving the campus at night triggered outrage in the state. The student, a 2nd-year MBBS student, who hails from Odisha’s Jaleswar, was allegedly gang-raped after she stepped outside the campus of the private medical college in Durgapur with her friend. To be sure, the crime was committed at around 8 pm on Friday, and the survivor’s father said his daughter’s classmates called him up around 9.30 pm. Four people have been held in connection with the case. Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said, “She was studying in a private medical college… all the private medical are whose responsibility? how they came out in the night at 12:30?… it happened, so far I know, in the forest area… investigation is on.”

She added that while she is shocked to see the incident, private medical colleges need to take care of their students, “especially the girl child”, who should “not be allowed to come out” at night. Agnimitra Paul, a Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA, had strongly condemned Banerjee’s remark, calling it shameful and regressive. Paul said, “We have a Taliban government in Afghanistan, and we have Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal.”