Keypoints:
- Woman showing her legs in saree does not go with the Bengal culture, said Dilip Ghosh.
- Mamata should wear bermudas if she wants to show her leg, said Ghosh in an election campaign rally in Purulia.
On Thursday, West Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh defended his Bermuda comment on Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee; he said that a woman showing her legs in saree is inappropriate.
On Tuesday, at an election campaign rally in Purulia, Ghosh said that Mamata should wear Bermudas if she wants to show her legs. This comment marked a low to which political discourse has stopped for the coming elections.
However, with this controversy, Dilip Ghosh said that people are finding Mamata’s way of draping a saree exposing one leg objectionable. “She is our CM, we expect her to act appropriately, befitting Bengal’s culture. A woman showing her legs in a saree is inappropriate. People are objecting. I found it objectionable. So I spoke,” Ghosh said.
It was on March 10 that Mamata Banerjee got injured in Nandigram. She claimed it to be an attack from. Later, the Election Commission dismissed as an accident.
Later from the day of the incident, BJP has been claiming that the accident was just a drama to gain sympathy of the voters.
On Tuesday, Dilip Ghosh said that, “People don’t want to see her face, that’s why she’s showing her broken leg… She is wearing a saree that covers one leg and shows the other. Never seen someone wear a saree like that. If you want to show your leg, then wear bermuda.”
“I don’t know where these doctors came who plastered her left leg while the injury was apparently on the right leg. We have not seen any report. Had there been a fracture, then the plaster can’t be taken off in two days..it takes a minimum of 21 days. Where from these doctors passed?” Dilip Ghosh asked.
Condemning the attack, Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra wrote, “..And these perverted depraved monkeys think they are going to win Bengal?”
“It now appears that the role of @BJP4Bengal State President has been merely reduced to that of venom-spitting. From scathing attacks towards the CM of Bengal to violence towards @AITCofficial workers – he has conveniently crossed all limits,” another MP of the party, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar wrote, tweeting the video of Dilip Ghosh’s address.
