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Bhattacharya, who antecedently represented the Dum Dum Uttar constituency, denied the allegations and said, “I americium stunned.” (X/@Tanmoy_Speak)
The CPM Sunday suspended erstwhile MLA Tanmay Bhattacharya from the enactment implicit intersexual harassment allegations by a pistillate journalist, who besides filed a constabulary ailment against Bhattacharya astatine Baranagar Police Station, accusing him of “sexual advancement and outrage of modesty.”
The woman, who conducted a Facebook Live league connected Sunday afternoon, said she visited Bhattacharya’s residence successful Baranagar for an interview, erstwhile helium had made improper advances and sexually harassed her. “I’ve ne'er faced specified an incidental successful 4 years of my career,” she said.
However, Bhattacharya, who antecedently represented the Dum Dum Uttar constituency, denied the allegations and said, “I americium stunned.” He claimed that the pistillate writer had travel to interrogation him earlier besides connected respective occasions.
Soon aft Facebook Live went viral, CPM authorities caput Md. Salim announced Bhattacharya’s suspension, till the party’s interior disciplinary committee completes a probe connected the same.
The CPM authorities committee, successful a property statement, said the enactment views immoderate specified allegation with seriousness and the allegation has affected the party’s image, truthful Bhattacharya has been “suspended” from the party. “On Sunday we came to cognize that a woman writer … felt offended with Tanmay’s behaviour…We person an interior ailment committee, they person a procedure… what Tanmay did, enactment can’t enactment specified behaviour…,” said Md. Salim.
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