'CPM women workers tear their own blouse and claim assault'

January 13, 2015 11:10

NDTV reports:

A minister in Bengal has provoked outrage with his comments against women activists of the opposition Left. "They have often torn their own blouse and claimed they were assaulted," said Swapan Debnath.

Debnath, a senior leader of the state's ruling Trinamool Congress, was addressing a rally in Burdwan when he said, "We say that a police officer arrests his own son for a promotion. Similarly, we know many women's wing leaders of CPI-M who used to tear their own blouse and accuse others of molestation."

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