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2 women candidates stripped during West Bengal panchayat polls: BJP

IndiaTimes Friday, 21 July 2023
BJP on Friday came down heavily on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee over the alleged stripping of two of its women candidates in the recent panchayat polls. Addressing a press conference, BJP MP Locket Chatterjee claimed that on the day of panchayat polls, July 8, a woman gram sabha candidate was beaten, stripped naked and paraded in Howrah’s Panchla, adding that the state police refused to file an FIR until it was forced to do so by BJP’s protests.
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