Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi: BJP National Spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla has criticized the Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal over another alleged flogging incident. Poonawalla raised questions about the silence of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and other INDIA bloc leaders regarding the incident.
Taking to social media platform X, Poonawalla shared a video depicting a group of men brutally thrashing a person. He captioned the video, “Another Horrific Talibani video from Bengal after Chopra talibani flogging,” and claimed that the video shows a close associate of a TMC MLA assaulting a girl with his gang.
In his post, Poonawalla stated, “One more Bengal Talibani video has surfaced, which shows that a woman is being brutally beaten by a person who is close to the Trinamool Congress leaders.”
Highlighting the recurrence of such incidents, Poonawalla added, “Incidents like these are constantly happening. TMC now means Talibani Mujhe Chahiye. And TMC leaders are defending it. They also defended the Chopra incident and the Sandeshkhali incident, for which the Mamata government was also reprimanded by the Supreme Court.”
Poonawalla accused the Bengal government of protecting the culprits, saying, “Today, the Mamata government has changed its slogan from ‘Ma Mati Manush’ to ‘Balaatkaari bachao’ (save the rapists), ‘Bhrashtachaari bachao’ (save the corrupt), and ‘Bomb Blast karne waalo ko bachao’ (save the bombers).”
Criticizing the INDIA bloc for their “hypocrisy” and silence on the issue, Poonawalla said, “The sad thing is that the leaders who talk a lot about women’s empowerment and the others who reach Manipur, like Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, will he go and meet this woman? Will they talk against the Mamata government? Will leaders like Priyanka Vadra, Priyanka Chaturvedi, and the Aam Aadmi Party speak on this issue? No, it is just a pin-drop silence on the Sandeshkhali, Swati Maliwal, Talibani incident in Chopra and this recent Talibani incident.”
Poonawalla further alleged that Trinamool leaders have confirmed the video’s authenticity but dismissed it as old news. “THEIR DEFENCE IS THAT IT’S A FEW WEEKS/MONTHS OLD! Is that even a defence? It means TMC, as usual, suppressed the video using threats,” he wrote.
