BJP doesn’t have faith in CBI: TMC on saffron party’s ‘fact-finding’ team to probe Nadia rape case
India Today
TMC leader Kunal Ghosh has hit out at the BJP over their decision to form a ‘fact-finding’ team to probe into the alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in Bengal’s Nadia district.
The Trinamool Congress has slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party’s decision to form a five-member committee to visit the site of the alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in Nadia in West Bengal to enquire into the incident. TMC leader Kunal Ghosh said that the move shows that “the BJP does not have faith in CBI”.
The five-member committee will be an all-women team and they have been asked to submit its report at the earliest to BJP president JP Nadda.
In a statement, the BJP said, “BJP National President Jagat Prakash Nadda has nominated a five-member fact-finding committee to visit the place of rape and murder of minor at Hanskhali, Nadia, West Bengal.”
In response, Trinamool Congress leader and former MP Kunal Ghosh questioned the need for a political party's team to do a report, even with the CBI carrying on an investigation. He went on to state that the BJP's move indicates that the party does not have faith in the CBI.
" The CBI is investigating the case. CBI is a central agency. (This) clearly shows that the BJP does not have faith in CBI. One more thing could happen that they want to impose the party line on the CBI. Hence, they are sending a fact-finding team," said Kunal Ghosh.
This is not the first time the BJP has formed a team to probe an incident in Bengal. Earlier, the party had sent a fact-finding team to Birbhum to prepare a report on the Bagtui violence.
A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped when she went to a birthday party of local TMC leader Samar Goala's son Braj Gopal Goala (21) on April 5. She died on Sunday.
