Meghalaya BJP demands action against Trinamool's Sujata Khan for 'insult to SCs'

SHILLONG: Meghalaya's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit has sought action against the All India Trinamool Congress leader Sujata Mondal Khan for her alleged insult against members of the Scheduled Castes community in West Bengal.

BJP state president Ernest Mawrie, in a memorandum to the President of India through the deputy commissioner of East Khasi Hills district on Wednesday, said, “Her shocking statement calling the Scheduled Castes of West Bengal “beggars”, intentionally insults with the intent to humiliate the entire Scheduled Caste population of West Bengal, is condemnable and amounts to promoting feelings of enmity, hatred and ill will against the members of the Scheduled Castes community in West Bengal.”

“It is utterly shameful and disgraceful that such statements are being openly and brazenly made by the ruling leadership of the Trinamool Congress to create enmity and hatred between different social classes in West Bengal.”

Urging the President to take action against the leader and the AITC which has chosen to "promote feelings of enmity and hatred against a certain section for vote-bank politics," Mawrie added that "such statements are a blow to the democratic republic."

According to Mawrie, complaints against the party have also been made to the Election Commission of India and the National Commission for Scheduled Castes.

The BJP has been running a concerted campaign in its bid to end the TMC's 10-year rule in the state.

Assembly polls in West Bengal are being held in eight phases between March 27 and April 29.

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