India, July 1 -- West Bengal minister Manas Bhunia is the latest Trinamool Congress leader to stir a controversy over the Kolkata law student gang-rape case by allegedly terming the crime as a "small incident".

Earlier, TMC leaders Madan Mitra and Kalyan Banerjee had trivialised the gang-rape of the first-year law student on the premises of the South Calcutta Law College on June 25.

The Bharatiya Janata Party came down heavily on the ruling TMC for the remarks made by its leaders and even called the Mamata Banerjee-led party a "protector of rapists".

BJP West Bengal co-incharge Amit Malviya on Tuesday shared a video clip of state irrigation minister Manas Bhunia's purported statement on X.

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