An FIR has been lodged with north Kolkata's Burtolla police station against West Bengal BJP unit president and Union minister Sukanta Majumdar for his alleged remark likening the state's law and order condition to a red light area of north Kolkata. The FIR was lodged on a complaint made by a sex worker at Sonagachhi, the brothel Majumdar referred to in his remark, a police officer said.
Majumdar was also charged with offending the Sonagachi sex workers in the complaint by relating their situation to the law and order scenario of the state.
The Trinamool Congress attacked Majumdar on Saturday after a video in which Majumdar allegedly uttered the words "the law and order in Bengal is like Sonagachi" went viral.
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NAI was unable to verify independently the genuineness of the video clip that the TMC also posted on X.
The party from its state general secretary Kunal Ghosh to its IT cell head Debangshu Bhattacharya in individual statements charged Majumdar with "insulting mothers and sisters of the area" and sought his apology.
In a video message, state minister and local MLA Shashi Panja said, "@BJP4India state president @DrSukantaBJP is in the least obligated to sex workers for an unconditional apology for his shameful, dehumanising statements. To make use of one of the most exposed segments of our society as a punchline for political slander is unacceptable." "Such filth-mouths have no right to hold any Constitutional position," she added.
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Majumdar made the remarks from within a car while reacting to an inquiry by journalists on the law and order scenario in the state. "This being an FIR already, discussion is not required," BJP Rajya Sabha member and spokesman Samik Bhattacharya said to the press.
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