Chief Minister of Odisha Mohan Chanran Majhi. File | Picture Credit score: Biswaranjan Route
The Biju Janata Dal on Wednesday (October 15, 2025) criticized Chief Minister Mohan Majhi for releasing the video of his dialog with the Odia medical lady scholar who was gangraped in Durgapur of West Bengal.
Addressing a press convention, ladies wing of BJD took sturdy exceptions to dialog being made public, which the occasion termed as violation the Supreme Court docket tips.
“Whilst ladies within the State proceed to develop into victims of such heinous crimes daily, the CM has proven little concern. Whereas the incident in West Bengal is certainly deplorable and painful, the way during which Mr. Majhi made the recording of his dialog with the sufferer public is much more condemnable,” ladies leaders stated.
“Regardless of the recurrence of rape and gangrape incidents within the State during the last 15 months, the CM has remained silent. His sudden curiosity within the West Bengal case is solely politically motivated. Each the State and Nationwide Girls’s Commissions have met the sufferer in West Bengal, however in relation to Odisha, they’ve by no means proven such initiative in related circumstances,” stated Sulata Deo, Normal Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP.
Ms Deo stated, “It’s unlucky that as a substitute of making certain justice for victims, the BJP and the state authorities are politicizing their ache. When BJP MLA Santosh Khatua made indecent remarks a few BJD chief, the matter was reported to each the State and Nationwide Girls’s Commissions, but neither took any motion.”
Equally, senior Normal Secretary Lekhasri Samantsinghar stated that the best way BJP leaders, together with former union minister and Balasore MP Pratap Sarangi, rushed to West Bengal to satisfy the sufferer, it was felt like a scene of ‘rape tourism.’
It must be talked about that Odisha had despatched delegation of officers and chairperson of State Fee for Girls to West Bengal to offer help to the rape survivor. Nearly all high BJP leaders have publicly expressed issues over gang-rape of Odia lady.
Relations of rape survivor pleaded the federal government to facilitate switch of their daughter to any of medical school of Odisha, authorities sources stated.
Revealed – October 16, 2025 03:40 am IST