In what has come as an embarrassment for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Deepak Haldar has stirred a controversy with his unwarranted comments on rape incidents.
"There was rape earlier, there is rape today. As long as the earth exists, there will be rape," he said on Wednesday.
The Diamond Harbaour MLA was quick to spell out his stand against rape and asked the media not to distort what he meant to say. He said that rape was a social malice, which cannot be solved by the chief minister alone, and thus, called for a concerted effort from all to tackle this menace.
TMC MP Tapas Pal had earlier created a controversy over a similar nature that had led to nationwide furore.
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