No help from Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi: Assam Youth Congress chief accuses Srinivas BV of harassment

The leader of the Indian Youth Congress`s (IYC) Assam unit, Angkita Dutta, accused her colleague and IYC leader Srinivas BV of sexism and of mentally harassing her over her gender. She is the daughter of Anjan Dutta, who turned into a minister in Tarun Gogoi`s authorities in Assam and additionally headed the celebration’s country unit.

In a couple of tweets, Dutta lashed out at Priyanka Gandhi and her brother, Rahul Gandhi, for failing to take any movements in opposition to Srinivas notwithstanding her complaints. Despite her complaints, “no enquiry committee has been initiated in opposition to Srinivas”, she stated.

“IYC President Srinivas BV has usually pressured me and turned into discriminating on the premise of my gender. My values and training doesn`t permit me anymore. The management has performed deaf ears notwithstanding deliver the front of them many times (sic),” Dutta stated in one in all her tweets, tagging Rahul Gandhi, KC Venugopal and Priyanka Gandhi.

“I even have stored quiet for months looking forward to them to do so in opposition to him, but nobody regarded interested. Srinivas BV, withinside the guise of his PR, is getting away with all styles of incorrect doings. How can a sexist and a chauvinistic lead IYC, torture and demean a lady each unmarried time? What occurred to Priyanka Gandhi`s `ladki hoon, lad sakti hoon`?” she asked.

Dutta stated she had a “lot of religion” in Rahul Gandhi, whom she approached in Jammu at some stage in the celebration`s Bharat Jodo Yatra. “I had lots of religion in Rahul Gandhi and went to Jammu at some stage in Bharat Jodo Yatra to appraise him of Srinivas BV`s harassment and demeaning use of language in the direction of me. It`s April now and nonetheless no enquiry in opposition to him,” she stated.

“Is this the secure space? Rahul Gandhi talks approximately ladies,” she stated, tagging Priyanka Gandhi. “I am a lady leader. If I go through such harassment, how am I speculated to inspire ladies to sign up for the Congress?” she asked.

“Srinivas thinks he’s so effective and has the advantages of large leaders that he can harass and demean a lady withinside the organisation. When preceding IYC president Keshav Kumar sexually pressured and (it) got here out due to the fact of #MeToo, he turned into pressured to be removed. Now notwithstanding being mentally pressured and discriminated through Srinivas for 6 months, I had been advised to maintain mum and no enquiry has been initiated,” she stated.

Dutta went directly to remind the celebration management that she is a fourth technology Congress leader. “I am a fourth-technology congressman. I even have contested inner organisation (elections) twice, made sales space committee, turned into overwhelmed through police. My training is from Pol Sc to LLB at Delhi University, to PhD at Guwahati University. We maintain quiet for the sake of the celebration. But harassment doesn`t forestall through Srinivas,” she stated.

In reaction to her allegations, the criminal mobileular of the IYC stated it’s going to initiate “sturdy criminal movement” in opposition to Dutta. “Dr Dutta has resorted to the usage of totally unparliamentary, undignified, defamatory, malicious phrases in opposition to IYC President Srinivas BV ji and has levelled absolutely frivolous allegations in opposition to him. The IYC Legal Cell is beginning sturdy/stringent criminal movement in appreciate of the same,” the criminal mobileular of the IYC stated in a tweet.

With a college of Dutta’s a couple of tweets in opposition to Srinivas, the BJP`s IT-mobileular leader, Amit Malviya, stated: “Dr Angkita Dutta, President of IYC Assam, alleges being pressured through Srinivas BV, IYC`s National President for her gender. She says that even after coming near Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, no inquiry committee has been constituted. Harassment of ladies is endemic in Congress ranksâ€æ”

In 2019, any other Congress leader, Priyanka Chaturvedi, joined the Shiv Sena after a few Congress workers, who misbehaved together along with her in Mathura, had been reinstated.