BJD slams Odisha CM for making his conversation with West Bengal rape survivor public

The Biju Janata Dal on Wednesday (October 15, 2025) criticized Chief Minister Mohan Majhi for releasing the video of his dialog with the Odia medical woman pupil who was gangraped in Durgapur of West Bengal.

Addressing a press convention, girls wing of BJD took robust exceptions to dialog being made public, which the celebration termed as violation the Supreme Courtroom tips.

“Whilst girls within the State proceed to grow to be victims of such heinous crimes daily, the CM has proven little concern. Whereas the incident in West Bengal is certainly deplorable and painful, the style through which Mr. Majhi made the recording of his dialog with the sufferer public is much more condemnable,” girls leaders stated.

“Regardless of the recurrence of rape and gangrape incidents within the State over the past 15 months, the CM has remained silent. His sudden curiosity within the West Bengal case is only politically motivated. Each the State and Nationwide Girls’s Commissions have met the sufferer in West Bengal, however with regards to Odisha, they’ve by no means proven such initiative in comparable circumstances,” stated Sulata Deo, Basic Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP.

Ms Deo stated, “it’s unlucky that as a substitute of guaranteeing justice for victims, the BJP and the state authorities are politicizing their ache. When BJP MLA Santosh Khatua made indecent remarks a few BJD chief, the matter was reported to each the State and Nationwide Girls’s Commissions, but neither took any motion.”

Equally, senior Basic Secretary Lekhasri Samantsinghar stated that the way in which BJP leaders, together with former union minister and Balasore MP Pratap Sarangi, rushed to West Bengal to fulfill the sufferer, it was felt like a scene of ‘rape tourism.’

It must be talked about that Odisha had despatched delegation of officers and chairperson of State Fee for Girls to West Bengal to offer assist to the rape survivor. Virtually all high BJP leaders have publicly expressed considerations over gang-rape of Odia woman.

Relations of rape survivor pleaded the federal government to facilitate switch of their daughter any of medical faculty of Odisha, authorities sources stated.