India, Oct. 13 -- Taking a dig at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee over her remarks on Durgapur rape, union minister Kiren Rijiju called out certain sections of the media for being silent on her comments that have been deemed as blaming the victim.

"Imagine, if this statement was made by a BJP Chief Minister! The whole echo-system and self declared liberal journalists (actually illiberal gang) would have created unbearable situation in the country (sic)," Rijiju wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

The alleged gangrape of a second-year student of a private medical college in West Bengal's Durgapur triggered a massive political slugfest after Mamata questioned the survivor for leaving the campus at night. She said, "We take cases lik...