{"id":258405,"date":"2022-11-12T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=258405"},"modified":"2022-11-12T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T17:41:00","slug":"trinamools-mahua-moitra-takes-gujarat-model-dig-over-bjp-ticket-to-mla-who-called-rapists-sanskari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/11\/12\/trinamools-mahua-moitra-takes-gujarat-model-dig-over-bjp-ticket-to-mla-who-called-rapists-sanskari\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinamool’s Mahua Moitra Takes “Gujarat Model” Dig Over BJP Ticket To MLA Who Called Rapists “Sanskari”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra is among those who’ve gone to court against release of Bilkis Bano convicts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bengal MP Mahua Moitra today defined the BJP’s “Gujarat model” as “hate and kill, then fete and reward”, referring to the ruling party giving the poll ticket again to its\u00a0Godhra MLA who’d called convicted rapists-murderers in the Bilkis Bano case “sanskari <\/em>(cultured)\u00a0<\/em>Brahmins”.<\/p>\n

The 11 men, sentenced to life in jail, were released on August 15 by the state government \u2014 with approval of the Centre \u2014\u00a0“on account of good behaviour” after serving 15 years.<\/p>\n

Ms Moitra, Lok Sabha member from Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, is among petitioners in the Supreme Court seeking reversal of the decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Godhra MLA who called Bilkis case rapists & killers \u201cSanskari Brahmins\u201d is re-nominated by BJP.<\/p>\n

This is the Gujarat Model. Hate & Kill. Then Fete & Reward.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) November 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BJP MLA Chandrasinh Raulji, earlier with the Congress, was part of the panel that decided to release the convicts who spent 15 years in jail.\u00a0A former state minister, he is a six-time MLA from Godhra, the town that\u00a0was at the centre of the 2002 riots during which\u00a0Bilkis Bano was gangraped and nine members of her family, including her three-year-old daughter, were killed by the 11 men.<\/p>\n

He had defended those men’s release in an interview to\u00a0online news outlet\u00a0Mojo Story <\/em>:<\/em>\u00a0“They were Brahmins, and Brahmins are known to have good sanskar <\/em>(cultural values). It might have been someone’s ill-intention to corner and punish them.”<\/p>\n

The comments led to outrage and condemnation by several Opposition parties. “BJP now terms rapists as ‘Men of Good Sanskar’. This is the lowest a party can ever stoop!”\u00a0Y Satish Reddy, social media convener of Telangana’s ruling TRS, had said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey are Brahmins, Men of Good Sanskaar. Their conduct in jail was good”: BJP MLA #CKRaulji<\/a><\/p>\n

BJP now terms rapists as \u2018Men of Good Sanskar’. This is the lowest a party can ever stoop! 🙏 @KTRTRS<\/a>@pbhushan1<\/a>pic.twitter.com\/iuOZ9JTbhh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 YSR (@ysathishreddy) August 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Gujarat government’s statement in court later revealed that the Centre ignored multiple objections \u2014 including those by the magistrate who convicted them \u2014 while fast-tracking the release. The convicts had also been getting regular parole, for hundreds of days, when they were serving the sentence.<\/p>\n

Chandrasinh Raulji won on the BJP ticket last time after shifting from the Congress in August 2017, just ahead of the elections. He’d won as a Congress candidate in 2007 and 2012. After switching to the BJP, he defeated the Congress but with a meagre margin of 258 votes.<\/p>\n

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