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Former Trinamool Congress MP and Bengali actress Mimi Chakraborty shared a tweet on Tuesday, August 20. Through this post, Mimi told that she is constantly receiving rape and death threats.
Mimi had participated in a protest 6 days ago against the doctor rape and murder case in Kolkata. Since then, she has been receiving continuous threats on social media.
While sharing this post, Mimi also tagged the Cyber Cell.
Along with this post, Mimi also shared screenshots of some threatening messages.
Mimi asked- what kind of upbringing allows this?
Sharing a tweet, the actress wrote, 'And we are demanding justice for women, right? These are just some of them. Where rape threats have been normalized by masked people in the crowd. Who say that they stand with women. After all, what upbringing and education allows this?'
Mimi Chakraborty was also a former MP from Mamata Banerjee's (right) party TMC. She reached Parliament by winning the Jadavpur seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
She joined the protest on 14 August
Mimi Chakraborty took part in the protest against the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata on the night of August 14. Many Bengali film actors like Riddhi Sen, Arindam Sil and Madhumita Sarkar were also present with her.
Mimi had shared this video from the protest on social media on the 14th.
Bengali artists like Mimi Chakraborty and Shubhasree Ganguly took part in the ongoing protest in Kolkata.
