WB CM questions why NCW took CPI(M) leader along

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Press Trust of India Jalpaiguri (WB)
Last Updated : Feb 11 2014 | 5:25 PM IST
Virtually questioning the impartiality of the National Commission for Women which visited a gang-rape victim in Subolpur village today, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wondered why a woman CPI(M) leader accompanied them.
"It does not matter. They took a CPI(M) women leader along with them," Banerjee told a questioner at a media briefing here after inauguration of a new secretariat in north Bengal.
"The answer to this (question) will be given by TMC spokesperson Mahua Moitra," she said adding that her's was a press conference on cabinet decisions and not of the party.
NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma led a team earlier in the day to visit the tribal girl who was allegedly gang-raped on the orders of a kangaroo court at Subolpur village in Birbhum district on January 21.
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First Published: Feb 11 2014 | 5:25 PM IST

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