Union Minister Sukanta Under TMC Fire For Likening Bengal’s Law & Order To ‘Sonagachi Sex Workers’

Trinamool Congress launched a scathing attack on Union Minister and BJP leader Sukanta Majumder, accusing him of comparing West Bengal's law and order with the "sex workers of Sonagachi". The ruling party has targeted him for "insulting mothers and sisters of Sonagachi" and demanded that he retract his statement and issue an apology.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led TMC had shared a video its official X handle on June 21, wherein Majumder is heard saying, "You have turned the law and order into the sex workers of Sonagachi. This is the law of West Bengal." 

The party slammed the BJP and the Union Minister in the post, saying that they have an "ugly, hate-fuelled mindset that sees women as objects of abuse and insult, and the poor as tools to be exploited or mocked." 

Amid the ongoing row, TMC leader Kunal Ghosh reiterated on Sunday that Majumdar insulted a section of women by his remarks and that it is important to consider the struggle and pain of sex workers.

"Sukanta Majumdar insulted the mothers and sisters of Sonagachi. They maybe sex workers, but please consider their struggle, their pain. Sukanta Majumdar has insulted the sex workers, a section of women," Kunal Ghosh said.

The TMC general secretary had also slammed Majumder in a video posted on the party's X handle, calling his remarks ugly. "He (Majumder) has been shouting and insulting the sex workers of Sonagachi. He has made distorted statements by comparing them politically, looking at them in poor light," Ghosh said. 

"Do you understand what sex workers of Sonagachi mean? Do you understand how much pain, tears, suffering and struggle they face? You need to apologise to these mothers and sisters. What right do you have to insult the mothers and sisters in that profession?" he said, demanding an apology from the Union Minister for his remarks.

The remarks were reportedly made by Sukanta Majumder when he was trying to meet an NRI doctor who had protested during Banerjee's visit to Kellogg College in the UK earlier this year. The BJP leader was also detained in Kolkata's Bhowanipore on Friday.

Meanwhile, there has been no response from both Majumdar or the BJP over the alleged remarks made by the Union Minister in the video posted by the TMC. 

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