Trinamool leadership slams BJP over atrocities against women in BJP-ruled States

Senior Trinamool leaders, such as Shashi Panja and Kunal Ghosh, launched an attack on Saturday (October 25, 2025) targeting BJP leaders for crimes against women in BJP-ruled States. The party leaders raised the issue of the death of a woman doctor in Maharashtra following an alleged sexual assault, as well as the harassment of two international women cricketers in Indore.

The remarks come at a time when the ruling party in West Bengal is facing criticism over a series of assaults on women in the State. 

Shashi Panja, the Minister of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare of West Bengal, on Saturday (October 25) said that atrocities against women were tragic regardless of the place they happened. However, she said that BJP leaders resorted to selective outrage during such instances. “No one seems to be raising their voice in Maharashtra. No uproar, no outrage. We have not seen a single statement from the Maharashtra Chief Minister. Where is the Maharashtra State Women’s Commission?” Ms. Panja said. 

Commenting on the issue, MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar said, “Selective outrage is the BJP’s favourite governance tool.” Tagging the BJP, the National Commission for Women, and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in a post on the social media platform X, she asked “Why justice ends where their power begins?” 

The All India Trinamool Congress’ (AITMC) official page on social media also made multiple posts criticising the atrocities against women in BJP-ruled States. “Every time an unfortunate incident occurs in Bengal, @BJP4India unleashes its entire machinery to transform it into a grotesque spectacle of political mudslinging. But when horrors unfold in their own backyard, a deafening silence prevails,” an official post from the AITMC handle on X said. It also added that the “Beti Bachao” slogan was a facade to cover up the BJP’s own faults.

Furthermore, senior Trinamool spokesperson and former Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh also came down heavily on the BJP leadership for the attack on the two women cricketers in Indore in Madhya Pradesh. He said the incident had brought shame to India on the global stage. “This is an international stage of cricket where international players are playing in the ICC Women’s World Cup, and there in the broad daylight, women players are being harassed... The BJP has tarnished the image of India on the world stage... This is what the “Double-Engine” government does,” Mr. Ghosh said on X. 

The remarks by the Trinamool Congress come closely on the heels of BJP leaders heavily criticising the ruling party in West Bengal for failing to protect women. A series of assaults on women in West Bengal in October alone had sparked the heated political debate.  “Now, everyone is in the Trinamool; all the miscreants have gone and picked up the Trinamool flag to stay safe. They know that when they have blessings from the Trinamool, they can’t be held accountable,” said State BJP president and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya on October 23.

The series of attacks included a minor girl who was sexually assaulted at the State Government’s SSKM Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on October 22. Separately, a female nurse was physically assaulted by a drunken man at a Primary Health Centre in Birbhum on the same day, leaving her severely injured. On October 20, a woman doctor was assaulted by a patient’s family at the Uluberia Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Government Medical College and Hospital in Howrah district. 

At the beginning of October, a woman medical student from Odisha was sexually assaulted near her medical college in Durgapur by a group of men.