First came the shameful 'rape' comment from the BJP MP Roopa Ganguly for political mudslinging, now is the absurd justification.

Roopa Ganguly, who had dared TMC and Congress leaders to send women from their families to West Bengal and see if they can survive 15 days without getting raped, is unapologetic about her statement.

"There are too many incidents happening in West Bengal. Atrocities against women are very high, beyond being managed. Police don't take cases. According to an NCRB report, there were around 34,000 cases of atrocities against women in the state. People have stopped registering the cases. Since we roam around at the ground level, we know there are so many cases that the police don't register," said BJP MLA Ganguly told India Today.

Interestingly, NCRB data records from 2015 show that crime against women has indeed dipped in West Bengal from 38,299 cases in 2014 to 33,218 cases reported in 2015. Also, the crime rate figure is cumulative assessment of cases reported including domestic violence and abetment to suicide.

"It is the ground situation, it is the information that I have got. You can come to Bengal, why unnecessarily wasting my time here? Send your crew in West Bengal and check. I won't apologise because I know the ground reality and I stand by my comment. I know the number of women being raped, three consecutive days they were raped. It is my Bengal too, I am not a politician who was there fighting for 20-30 years, I really feel sorry," added Ganguly.

But even as Roopa Ganguly fails to corroborate her claims with any facts, she fired a fresh salvo at Mamata Banerjee of 'fooling' people of West Bengal.

"If Mamata Banerjee was in her time when she was in this situation what ruckus she would have done. I just hope that she was in Opposition, then things would have worked. When she was in Opposition, she would have done something. She also tried to solve something. People trusted her, now they are made fools. Now she is showing her true colours that whatever she was fighting was for the chair," said Roopa Ganguly.

While war of words peaks, it also reaches a fresh low in Bengal politics. TMC MLA Sovan Deb Chattopadhyay countered her with another embarrassing comment.

"First of all she should say how many times she has been raped in Bengal," said Chattopadhyay.

"I am sure he didn't hear what I said. He didn't hear the full comment. I don't mind, he must have not understand what I said. I am forced to behave like this because this is the Bengal that you have created," Roopa Ganguly told India Today.

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