Women empowerment, Congress fashion: Sexual harassment accused rewarded with AICC secretary publish for 3 states. Read particulars

While Priyanka Gandhi Vadra screams about ladies empowerment and chants “Ladki Hoon, Lad Sakti Hu”, the Congress occasion has rehabilitated a Congress employee accused of sexual harassment. Congress final week reinstated Ranajit Mukherjee, accused of sexual harassment, and made him the secretary of the three key states- Tripura, Nagaland and Sikkim. Mukherjee was faraway from occasion posts final 12 months after he was accused of harassing a celebration colleague and displaying “predatory behaviour” towards one other lady.
On the twenty third of December, Congress had appointed three AICC secretaries. Congress had appointed Ranajit Mukherjee, Szarita Laitphang and Tajinder Pal Singh Bittu as AICC secretaries. Of the three, Mukherjee has been accused of sexual harassment.
With months left for the all-important Uttar Pradesh state meeting elections, nearly all political events which are coming into the fray have launched political campaigns to woo their potential voters. While the BJP has centred its marketing campaign round developmental work and its Hindutva roots, different political events comparable to Samajwadi Party are nonetheless counting on the previous hack of caste dynamics to cease CM Yogi Adityanath from returning to energy. 
The Congress occasion, which was as soon as the focus of the Indian political area, nonetheless, is struggling to mount an inexpensive marketing campaign to offer a reputable various to the voters in Uttar Pradesh. Rahul Gandhi, like at all times, is on a wild goose chase, attempting to revive the political fortunes of a celebration that appears to be irredeemably consigned to the fringes of Indian politics. Similarly, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, too, seems to be complimenting her brother in guaranteeing that Congress stays out of competition within the upcoming UP meeting elections.
Clutching on to straws, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had first provide you with the “Ladki Hoon, Lad Sakti Hoon” slogan to try to contest on the plank of ladies empowerment. Soon, she made a daft assertion that confirmed how out of depth she actually was. Priyanka Vadra, maybe with the purpose of mobilising ladies voters behind the Congress occasion, proclaimed that LPG cylinders and bathrooms will not be ladies empowerment.
While Priyanka didn’t take into account strikes to empower ladies as ladies empowerment, it’s attention-grabbing that now Congress has deserted the plank fully and reinstated a frontrunner accused of sexual harassment and predatory behaviour.
What have been the allegations towards Ranajit Mukherjee
It was solely final 12 months that Ranajit Mukherjee had resigned from his publish as AICC secretary after Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Gowda, chairman of the occasion’s analysis division undertook an inner investigation on the accusations of sexual harassment towards him.
Mukherjee was additionally part of the occasion’s analysis division and his resignation was accepted after the allegations had surfaced.
During the 2018 Rajasthan Assembly Elections, a girl from the NSUI had submitted a written grievance towards Mukherjee and one other colleague from the Congress analysis division had additionally alleged that Mukherjee was indulging in predatory behaviour.
Though he has proven a sample of misconduct with ladies, the Congress occasion has reinstated Mukherjee. In truth, the reinstatement of Mukherjee comes even because the investigation into his sexual misconduct has not reached its conclusion.