TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh’s ‘abuse’ grievance towards social gathering colleague Kalyan Banerjee to be referred to Home panel
Amid infighting within the Trinamool Congress after a large loss to the BJP in West Bengal, social gathering MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar’s grievance towards fellow TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee, accusing him of misogynistic feedback, is about to be referred to a Parliamentary committee, HT has learnt. The matter is at the moment into consideration by the Lok Sabha Secretary Basic.
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, in her letter to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, alleged that Banerjee “repeatedly verbally abused” her contained in the Home chambers. “This misogyny has been towards many ladies members and must be punished,” she wrote earlier, when she sought to file the grievance which she ultimately did.
Two days earlier than that, she stepped down as chief of the TMC’s girls’s wing, saying in her resignation letter that the social gathering had been unable to guard her from the abuse of a fellow MP, an obvious reference to Banerjee.
This got here after TMC chief Mamata Banerjee determined to changed her because the social gathering’s chief whip within the Lok Sabha, selecting Kalyan Banerjee to take up that put up.
By stepping down from social gathering posts after that, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar moved additional away from the social gathering. Her formal grievance towards Kalyan Banerjee creates a recent tussle throughout the beleaguered TMC.
Accusations of misogyny and verbal abuse between social gathering colleagues are uncommon within the Lok Sabha’s historical past.
On Wednesday, Banerjee had hit again at Dastidar, reminding the media how she was accused of taking ₹5 lakh within the Narada sting operation. He even accused her of supporting unlawful syndicates of uncooked materials suppliers in Kolkata.
Banerjee stated in Delhi, “After one thing occurs on the ground, the Speaker should be knowledgeable instantly, that’s the rule. Any incident should be reported to the Speaker at once. As for the allegations being made, the query is who stated what and when. The issue lies of their intentions. It appears they’re performing with a motive, which raises my doubts.”
