Mahua Moitra,TMCMP from West Bengal's Krishnanagar, alleged "harassment" onboard a Delhi-bound flight, saying that a group of men boarded in a group, leered at her, and went to the back of the plane. Moitra shared a video on X, formerly Twitter, in which some people can be heard saying, "Jai Shri Ram... Chor... Chor... Trinamool Chor, Sab Chor... Jai Shri Ram."
Narrating the sequence of events as they happened, Mahua Moitra in the X post said, "ALERT! I travelled to Delhi today on official work to attend a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence. I was on seat 1F on 6E 719. 4-6 men boarded in a group and leered at me and went to the back of the plane. When the flight landed and before the doors opened, this is what they did and filmed it. This is no “citizen anger”. This is harassment and violates my safety in an aircraft. There is no way that these louts can get away with this harassment inside an airplane. @IndiGo6E find your crew report, name and shame them, and put them on a no-fly list @RamMNK. Please take action. @MamataOfficial."
In another post, the Lok Sabha MP hit out at the BJP, saying, "This is BJP culture. Why is anyone surprised? I ignored it and went to my meeting (meeting) from the airport. Then people forwarded me a video which the Sanghis were "viralling". That’s when I called it out. @IndiGo6E tells me they need a formal complaint. Which I am sending."
The incident has surfaced after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defeated Trinamool Congress, winning West Bengal's Assembly elections by securing 207 seats, while restricting Mamata's party tally to just 80 seats.
Speaking on West Bengal results a day after they were declared, Mahua Moitra had said that her party respects the mandate as the will of the people is supreme. She also said that the party will continue the fight for a “secular country”.
In a post on X, Moitra said, "The will of the people is supreme. If Bengal wanted BJP, then Bengal has got BJP. We respect that.”
"We fought the good fight against unimaginable odds on an uneven pitch and for that I am proud of my leader & my party," Moitra said.
She said the TMC will continue to stand and fight for a secular country where the constitution, and "not brute majoritarianism, is the last word”.
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