New Delhi, Oct 12 (PTI) The BJP on Sunday lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for asking female boarders not to venture out at night following the alleged gangrape of a medical student, and demanded her resignation, calling her a "blot on womanhood".

The party accused the Trinamool Congress supremo of "victim shaming and blaming" and said a chief minister who cannot stand with women in their darkest hour has no moral right to govern the state.

This comes after Banerjee said that female boarders, especially those from outside the state, should follow hostel rules and not venture out late at night. The chief minister made the remarks after a student of a private medical college in Durgapur, hailing from Odisha, was allegedly gang-raped on Friday night when she went out

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