India, June 27 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party and the ruling Trinamool Congress engaged in a war of words over the alleged gangrape of a law student in South Kolkata and the prime accused being a former TMC leader.

The row escalated as police arrested Monojit Mishra, a former president of the TMC youth wing, identifying him as the prime accused in this case.

BJP West Bengal's co-incharge, Amit Malviya, condemned the incident as "another shameful chapter" in Bengal's "collapsing law and order under TMC rule". He further alleged that the gangrape took place right outside the union room of the TMC students' wing (Trinamool Chhatra Parishad).

Malviya termed the incident as a "symptom of a deeper rot". He raised several questions about the c...