‘Don’t touch my body, you are lady’: TMC takes swipe at Suvendu Adhikari’s remarks during protest march
BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari was on Tuesday mocked by the Trinamool Congress Party, his former party, over his comment to a female police official during a protest march by his party against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s party.
Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, was heard shouting “don’t touch me” after a woman policeman tried to detain him and take him to board a prison van.
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“Don’t touch my body. You are lady, I am male,” Adhikari was heard shouting in the video as some female police personnel were trying to escort him to the prison van.
The TMC shared the video on Twitter and said, .@BJP4India’s 56-inch chest model BUSTED! Proclamation of the day: “Don’t touch my body. I am male!”
Asserting that he was a “law-abiding citizen”, Adhikari demanded that male police officers be called for speaking to him. Adhikari was thereafter escorted to the prison van by DCP (South) Akash Magharia.
The BJP leader later alleged that he was “manhandled” but did not retaliate as he respects women.
“I see Maa Durga in the eyes of every woman,” the BJP leader was heard saying in a video posted on Facebook by party MP Locket Chatterjee.
Several BJP leaders, including Adhikari, Chatterjee and Rahul Sinha, were earlier today detained by the police while moving towards state secretariat ‘Nabanna’ in Howrah and taken away in a prison van.
Adhikari and other BJP leaders were stopped near Police Training School in Hastings area, where barricades were put up to prevent the BJP supporters from marching to Nabanna.
A large number of BJP supporters from across West Bengal started reaching Kolkata and neighbouring Howrah this morning to take part in the saffron party’s ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ (march to secretariat) to protest against alleged corrupt practices of the TMC government.
