Watch: Smriti Irani busts Rajdeep Sardesai’s makes an attempt to hail Mamata Banerjee as a ladies empowerment champion

‘Journalist’ Rajdeep Sardesai has again and again expressed his admiration for the West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee. From downplaying political violence within the state to selecting to eat Rasgulla over asking powerful inquiries to CM Banerjee, the IndiaToday journalist has apparently been a ‘fan’ of Mamata Banerjee defending her on her wrongs and eulogising her even on the slightest risk of appreciating her.

Union Minister Smriti Irani in a latest interview on IndiaToday reminded Sardesai of the crimes dedicated by TMC staff in opposition to village ladies within the state for opposing Mamata Banerjee within the elections, as Rajdeep Sardesai tried to credit score Mamata Banerjee for advocating for ladies’s reservation.

Minister Smriti Irani defined the procedures concerned within the implementation of the ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam’ merely Women’s Reservation Bill saying that it may be carried out publish 2026 following the census and the delimitation. Sardesai then questioned Minster Irani whether it is assumed that the ladies’s reservations can be carried out within the 2029 elections, “in the interim all political parties must make a greater effort to give more tickets to women.”

“Mamata Banerjee, to her credit score has given forty p.c tickets, Naveen Patnaik gave thirty-three p.c tickets, do you assume events like yours (BJP) and the Congress must observe swimsuit? Sardesai continued.

In response to Rajdeep Sardesai’s try at establishing the TMC’s assertion that they’d an higher hand in championing the ladies’s reservation, Minister Irani mentioned, “Mr Sardesai, mine is the only political organisation in the country, that created a reservation for women within our organisation. If you think that Mamata Bandhopadhyay (Mamata Banerjee) is the flag bearer of women’s rights, I think looking at the tyranny of distance you need to go and visit those villages in West Bengal where women were raped for opposing Mamata Bandhopadhyay.”

“You need to interview those families where women were not allowed back to their villages till such time they were sexually assaulted by TMC goondas. For you to hold Mamata Banerjee as the flag bearer of women’s rights knowing this information is outrageous,” Irani continued.

Rajdeep Sardesai being his regular self, determined to not converse a phrase on the political violence in West Bengal beneath the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC authorities, and moved again to questioning the Minister if she is hopeful that political events would give extra tickets to ladies. The union minister responded to this by saying “My political leadership has done what no other political party has managed to do in this country, to pass the women’s reservation bill,” including that the opposite political events couldn’t achieve this regardless of being in energy for many years.

It is value noting that the Bhartiya Janata Party introduced in 2007 that it will reserve 33% of its organisational positions, together with nationwide workplace bearers, for ladies. While Rajdeep Sardesai is curious whether or not the BJP will observe Mamata Banerjee’s swimsuit in giving extra tickets to ladies within the coming elections, it was the BJP solely that first adopted a proper decision in assist of 33% reservation for ladies in Parliament and State Legislatures and demanded a obligatory Constitutional modification on this regard in 1994.

It is no surprise that Rajdeep Sardesai sees Mamata Banerjee as a ladies’s rights champion regardless of being conscious of the political violence unleashed by her occasion staff in the course of the lately held Panchayat elections or the final state meeting elections. In July this yr, whereas chatting with ‘The Lallantop‘ journalist Saurabh Dwivedi, Sardesai not only tried to contextualise the violence but also gave a clean chit to the TMC leader when asked to speak on the West Bengal CM’s failure to carry a free and truthful election within the state by bringing within the ‘chronology’ and ‘political culture of Bengal’. Moreover, he additionally asserted that the Panchayat election was a battle for relevance and sustenance of political stature, thus implying that violence was a political compulsion.

To ask powerful questions or eat Rasgulla: Rajdeep Sardesai prefers Rasgulla

In August 2021, the veteran ‘journalist’ conceded that he would have been denied ‘rasgulla’ (a standard Bengali candy) by Mamata Banerjee if he requested her about her post-poll pogrom in West Bengal.

Rajdeep Sardesai was requested whether or not he questioned Banerjee over the saga of political violence in West Bengal. He chuckled and mentioned, “I was not there to take her interview. I went there casually on ‘chai pe charcha’. Had I asked her about the post-poll violence I would not have gotten to eat rasgullas”.

Ignores panchayat election violence in Bengal and covers it up with ‘women chief minister’ argument, simply Rajdeep issues

While talking at a The Lallantop program in August this yr, Sardesai talked concerning the crimes in opposition to ladies throughout riots. In this context, Rajdeep talked about the Mumbai riots in 1992-1993 and the riots in Muzaffarnagar in 2013. However, when questioned about why he didn’t point out West Bengal on this context even when it was the latest instance of crimes in opposition to ladies, Sardesai tried to do a cover-up by saying that Bengal is the one state at current that has a girl chief minister.