Kolkata/Bhubaneswar: BJP MP from Odisha’s Balasore, Pratap Chandra Sarangi, on Tuesday visited the Durgapur ‘gangrape’ survivor at the private hospital in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman district where she is undergoing treatment.
Former Union Minister Sarangi, who arrived in Durgapur in the afternoon with a team of BJP workers, was reportedly stopped by the hospital’s security personnel, leading to an argument between the two sides.
“The MP’s visit to the hospital had been communicated to the West Bengal administration and the police. Despite that, we were stopped from entering. This is the state of affairs in Bengal,” PTI quoted Srinivas Pradhan, BJP’s media coordinator for Balasore district, as saying.
“We are here to meet our daughter, who has been tortured. However, they are not allowing us,” Sarangi said.
The BJP MP, along with a few party workers from Balasore, later met the woman in the hospital.
The second-year medical student hailing from Jaleswar in Odisha’s Balasore district was allegedly gangraped outside the campus of a private medical college in Durgapur on Friday night when she had gone out with one of her friends for dinner.
Police have so far arrested five people for their alleged involvement in the crime.