The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday (July 19, 2025) termed the incident of setting a 15-year-old girl on fire by miscreants in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled (BJP) Odisha‘s Puri district as “criminal negligence,” and accused the saffron party of witch-hunting Opposition parties instead of protecting the country’s daughters.
The girl suffered 70% burn injuries after unidentified youths set her on fire at Bayabar village in Puri.
“A 15-year-old girl in Puri was set on fire by 3 miscreants in Broad Daylight! @BJP4India, Where is your Beti Bachao slogan now? Where is @NCWIndia hiding? Or are they too busy witch-hunting opposition voices instead of protecting India’s daughters? This isn’t governance. It’s criminal negligence. PM @narendranodi, blood is on your hands!” the TMC said in a post on X.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on Friday (July 18, 2025) launched a blistering attack on the TMC government in West Bengal at a public meeting in Durgapur, accusing it of fostering an environment of violence, corruption, and insecurity that has turned the State into a dangerous place for women.
Mr. Modi had expressed concern over women’s safety in the State, referring to the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar hospital last year, and the recent alleged gangrape of a student at a law college in Kolkata.
Published – July 19, 2025 04:12 pm IST
