Husband of girl who crawled once more to TMC from BJP admits pressure from TMC leaders

The three tribal women who had been seen crawling from the Bharatiya Janata Party to the Trinamool Congress office in Balurghat, West Bengal, as ‘penance’ for turning into a member of the BJP have claimed that they had been not at all with the social gathering. However, The Indian Express has reported that their ‘Dandavat Parikrama’ was ordered by the native TMC administration as a ‘demonstration of strength.’

In actuality, the TMC chief who’s married to one among many sufferer women acknowledged that the social gathering had been under ‘pressure’ from ‘local higher-ups’ to oppose the BJP’s movement. He made no level out of who these ‘higher-ups’ had been. Shiuli Mardi, Thakran Soren, and Martina Kisku had been the three women who had been seen throughout the viral video doing the ‘Dandavat Parikrama’, crawling to the TMC office as ‘penance’ for turning into a member of BJP a day prior to now.

Rajen, the husband of Shiuli Mardi, acknowledged when requested about his partner and the other women being made to crawl, “I have been with the TMC since 2013. The party has taken action against the person who was responsible. I was under tremendous pressure from local higher-ups, I have nothing more to tell you. But I can tell you that neither my wife nor the other two women have ever been with any other party. We are Christians, how will we join the BJP.”

Rajen is a former gram panchayat pradhan and the TMC’s regional vice-president. A quick police station is solely spherical 20 yards away from their home.

Around 18 miles from Balurghat, the native BJP unit hosted a function on April 6 and acknowledged that over 100 people, largely women had joined the social gathering.

The three females crawled from the TMC’s Dakshin Dinajpur district headquarters, which Balurghat falls under, to the native BJP office a day later, on Good Friday, rubbing their noses on the underside. According to Pradipta Chakraborty, president of the Trinamool Mahila Congress throughout the Dakshin Dinajpur district, the women had been ‘misled’ into turning into a member of the BJP and as ‘penance’ they did the ‘parikrama’ sooner than returning to the TMC.

The incident was recorded on digicam, which introduced on an uproar among the many many public and prompted Sukanta Majumdar, the state BJP chief, to place in writing to President Droupadi Murmu and the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes.

“Martina Kisku, Shiuli Mardi, Thakran Soren and Malati Murmu joined the BJP. They belong to the ST community. Today, TMC goons forced them to return to the ruling party and punished them by asking them to do a Dandavat Parikrama,” he proclaimed.

TMC has repeatedly insulted tribal people. This takes it even better. This may be very condemnable. We firmly stand with our karyakartas and might do the whole thing to protect them.

— Dr. Sukanta Majumdar (@DrSukantaBJP) April 7, 2023

Pradipta Chakraborty was fired from her place when the video of the three women crawling generated controversy. The three tribal women dwell in Missionpara, 16 km from Balurghat. On Wednesday, Shiuli Mardi (31), Thakran Soren (42), and Martina Kisku (30) well-known that they didn’t want to speak concerning the ‘incident’ anymore. All three of them refused to comment when requested why they carried out the ‘parikrama.’

Shiuli Mardi, a mother of 1, talked about, “What happened has happened. Today our party leaders came and talked with us, and consoled us. They said they are with us and will help us. We are okay now. We were, we are and we will be with Trinamool Congress. We never joined the BJP.”

Thakran Soren emphasised that she not at all joined the BJP and that she ‘took shelter at Rajen’s home after the media started hounding us.’ Her husband is a daily wager, and her son is a mason.

Martina Kisku, who is usually a single mother, observed, “I was living in dread after the video went viral, but now I’m OK. I have informed TMC leaders that I have met that my voter card’s address needs to be altered. I receive no perks. They promised to take the necessary action.”

Snehalata Hembram, the model new Trinamool Mahila Congress district chairman who has succeeded Pradipta Chakraborty, and Debu Tudu, the sabhapati of the state Adivasi cell of the TMC, had been among the many many politicians who visited the village on Wednesday and spoke with the three women for better than an hour.

“Why are you asking us who made them do it? What happened was wrong. The person who is guilty of the wrongdoing has been immediately removed from all her posts. A tribal lady has been made the district Mahila Trinamool Congress president. Police have also registered a case,” responded Debu Tudu when requested in regards to the event.

Snehalata Hembram remarked, “What happened was terrible, and the party acted swiftly. I’m now here to watch out for the welfare of these three women as well as all the women in the area.”

Pradipta Chakraborty didn’t reply to any calls or messages seeking her side of the story. When The Indian Express went to her Balurghat residence. They had been instructed to attend in a room and subsequently educated that she was not there.

The BJP’s native gross sales area president in Badsankair, which is solely a short distance from Missionpara, Swapan Sil, pointed to just a bit veranda subsequent to his salon the place the social gathering’s recruiting session was carried out on Thursday.

“I was there and I helped organise the programme. It was a Mahila Morcha event where over 100 people joined. I have seen the video. Those three women were not present here,” he asserted. Sumati Karmakar, the district vice-president of BJP’s Mahila Morcha, whose house is about 8 km from Missionpara village, moreover denied understanding the three women.

She affirmed, “I was there when the joining took place. Mostly women and a few men were there. But I did not see these women. Trinamool Congress made their own supporters enact this drama. Since many are joining us, they aim to create such nonsense and mislead tribal people.”

In the meantime, TMC had a counter-program on Wednesday on the Daralhat neighbourhood near Balurghat, the place Krishna Kujur, the BJP’s candidate for Tapan throughout the 2016 Assembly elections, joined the TMC.

“I was the BJP’s Adivasi leader in the district. However, I saw BJP indulging in politics of division in the name of religion. I believe in the development model o Mamata Banerjee and that’s why I have joined TMC with over 100 families,” he voiced.