The expelled leader also refuted claims of working on the behest of the BJP to malign the image of the Congress party.
Digital Desk: As senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra entered Assam on Thursday, expelled party leader Angkita Dutta staged a protest in Sivasagar district’s Amguri town demanding "nyay", or justice.
Angkita, the daughter of former Assam Congress Minister Anjan Dutta, was expelled from the party, while serving as the Assam Youth Congress president, she made grave accusations of harassment against Srinivas B.V., the president of the national youth congress.
Additionally, she had reported Srinivas to the police, and the Supreme Court is now looking into her case.
Massive posters featuring images of Rahul Gandhi and Angkita Dutta from the first leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra a year ago were observed hanging in Amguri; in the meantime.
The posters read, “Nyay for Angkita” and “Are you tired of the injustice women face everyday?”
"I had sought justice from the Congress, but I was expelled from the party. Despite my ten months of exile, I contributed to the Congress party's strengthening in the Sivasagar district. I went to the homes to inform the villagers about Rahul Gandhi's yatra because they were not aware of it," she said in a statement to reporters.
"I have worked for the Congress for the past ten months even though I am not a member of the party. People have come with me, and I'm hoping that Rahul Gandhi would grant me justice as his yatra passes through Amguri."Today will also mark the end of my ten-month exile."
The expelled leader also refuted claims of working on the behest of the BJP to malign the image of the Congress party.
"I'm not a member of the BJP. Some figures in Congress attempted to transfer me to the saffron camp."
From her family's stronghold of Amguri, Angkita Dutta ran twice on the Congress platform but was defeated by the Asom Gana Parishad candidate.
She said in her police statement that Srinivas had been torturing and harassing her for a long time by using slang language, making sexist remarks, and threatening to harm her if she continued to protest to the senior party office bearers.
The Dispur police station received the complaint on April 19, 2023.
She added in her complaint that the accused had threatened to ruin her party career if she reported him at the Congress party's plenary assembly in Raipur, harassed her, grabbed her arm, shoved her, and used foul language.
The police had filed an FIR in line with the IT Act and other IPC sections that addressed harassment of women.
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