Who Is Mrinalini Mondal Maity: She is a top level Trinamool Congress district leader has embroiled herself in a controversy. Her video featuring her sitting in her office with a gun in her hand in West Bengal's Malda district has gone viral.
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Here's what you need to know about Mrinalini Mondal Maity
She is also the President of the Old Malda Panchayat Samity.
Besides this, she is also the president of Malda district Trinamool Congress.
In the video that has gone viral, she can be seen sitting on a chair in her office with trophies and an official board behind her. She is seen posing with a gun in her hand clearly. It is, however, not clear if the gun is real or fake.
She has claimed that the photograph was nearly one year old.
Opposition, however, doesn't believe it to be true. According to it, she has been in controversy on several occasions earlier also. Members of the opposition are demanding action against her.
Her husband was accused of beating an employee mercilessly some time ago inside the Block Development Office (BDO) and she was accused of shielding her husband from the consequences.
"Keeping arms is their culture and she is only following the tradition. In the last 11 years they have put the state as well as Malda on a heap of gunpowder. If you search you might get bombs and AK-47 even. That has become a part of their culture," a senior BJP leader said on the incident.
The TMC district President Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury also gave a statement saying that it is not justified to display arms at a government office and that police will find out whether the gun is real or fake.
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