Women's Panel Wants Youth Congress Chief Probed After Harassment Charge

The National Commission for Women has requested Assam Police to probe the harassment allegations towards Youth Congress leader Srinivas BV leveled via way of means of a celebration colleague from the state. Former Assam Youth Congress leader Angkita Dutta has accused Mr Srinivas of being “sexist and chauvinistic”, and discriminating towards her primarily based totally on gender. Srinivas BV, who’s presently campaigning for the celebration in Karnataka, has replied with a defamation be aware for allegedly using “unparliamentary and defamatory” phrases towards him.

NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma has written to the Director General of Police, Assam, asking for that he for my part look at the allegations towards the Congress chief. “A special document ought to be apprised. Meanwhile,NCW may also be inquiring into the problem,” the women`s panel stated in a tweet.

Ms Dutta has filed a criticism towards Srinivas BV at a police station in Dispur. In her criticism, she alleged that she turned into tortured via way of means of Mr Srinivas for the beyond six months. The letter – a replica of that is with NDTV – says that the accused used “slang phrases” and additionally “threatened” her with “dire consequences” if she “continues complaining approximately him earlier than the excessive workplace bearers.

Ms Dutta additionally informed NDTV that she is looking forward to her celebration’s stand on the problem. The police is but to check in an FIR. In a sequence of tweets on Tuesday, Ms Dutta accused Srinivas BV and any other Congress chief of intellectual harassment. She stated that they humiliated her over her gender.

“This has again and again been happening. I have been complaining withinside the organization for months however not anything happened. I am at the verge of dropping self-appreciate now due to the fact I am an knowledgeable girl and I paintings for women’s issues,” she stated.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has stated that the problem turned into an “inner rely” of the Congress celebration. “She has complained to Rahul Gandhi, now no longer me. If I act then they’ll query why I am involved approximately Congress’s inner rely. I need to make matters very clean except she complains to us on the problem, we are able to now no longer contain ourselves. I agree with that Congress’s pinnacle management shall defend the consideration of an Assamese girl. When it involves me, then l shall check out it,” he stated.

Senior Assam Congress chief and chief of the opposition, Debabrata Saikia, in the meantime brushed off the allegations as an try and tarnish the photo of the celebration. “The trouble is an inner rely of the celebration. It have to now no longer have long past out withinside the public domain. Angkita Dutta, thru her tweets, has placed the problem withinside the public domain. Yesterday, Indian Youth Congress president Srinivas BV despatched a criminal be aware to Angkita Dutta in search of a proof and apology. Now, I even have visible that the National Commission for Women has stepped in. In the situations and the manner matters have developed, I am pretty sure of a political purpose at the back of all this. I can’t placed the blames on each person with out ascertaining the facts,” he stated.