BJD slams Odisha CM for making his dialog 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 scholar who was gangraped in Durgapur of West Bengal.

Addressing a press convention, ladies wing of BJD took sturdy exceptions to dialog being made public, which the get together termed as violation the Supreme Court pointers.

“Even as ladies within the State proceed to develop into victims of such heinous crimes each day, the CM has proven little concern. While the incident in West Bengal is certainly deplorable and painful, the way during which Mr. Majhi made the recording of his dialog with the sufferer public is much more condemnable,” ladies leaders mentioned.

“Despite 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. Both the State and National Women’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,” mentioned Sulata Deo, General Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP.

Ms Deo mentioned, “it’s unlucky that as an alternative of making certain 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 National Women’s Commissions, but neither took any motion.”

Similarly, senior General Secretary Lekhasri Samantsinghar mentioned that the best way BJP leaders, together with former union minister and Balasore MP Pratap Sarangi, rushed to West Bengal to satisfy 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 Commission for Women to West Bengal to offer assist to the rape survivor. Almost all prime BJP leaders have publicly expressed considerations over gang-rape of Odia woman.

Family members of rape survivor pleaded the federal government to facilitate switch of their daughter any of medical school of Odisha, authorities sources mentioned.