New Delhi: Reacting to National Commission for Women's notice over his blog defending rape accused Sandeep Kumar, Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashutosh said, “should I be hanged for writing a column?”
Undeterred by the NCW notice, Ashutosh, was on Monday locked in a bitter war of words with NCW chief Lalitha Kumaramangalam after he was summoned by the women's body for defending sacked Delhi minister Sandeep Kumar, who is embroiled in a 'sex tape' scandal.
Taking suo motu cognisance, the commission has asked journalist-turned-politician Ashutosh to appear before it on September 8.
The NCW letter to Ashutosh, signed by Kumaramangalam, read: "The National Commission for Women is deeply disturbed...you have written a very objectionable and obnoxious article. In the matter of AAP Minister Sandeep Kumar allegedly caught on sex tape, the victim has filed a rape case against him."
Meanwhile, Ashutosh accused Kumaramangalam of lying that she is not a Bharatiya Janata Party member.
Ms Mangalam as a chairperson of NCW, you should not lie on a national TV that u r not BJP member.Wikipedia writes You are still a member.
— ashutosh (@ashutosh83B) September 5, 2016
"Lalitha Kumar Manglam Is member of BJP national executive/was national secretary of BJP. If I get notice from NCW, I will react," his another tweet read.
Reacting to it, Kumaramangalam said, "What kind of a journalist are you? You are two years behind time. I am not a member of BJP national executive. I was before. I am not even a spokesperson for the party. I was, before NCW. BJP has a strict rule of one person one post."
