Moon Moon Sen, the Asansol Lok Sabha candidate of Trinamul, caressed a baby langur brought to her campaign programme on Saturday, prompting rival parties to allege she had violated the Wildlife Protection Act through public display of the animal. Sen kept the langur in the arms for sometime and said: “I love animals as they are very innocent. “The Trinamul candidate tried to use the langur as her poll plank to woo Hindus a day after Hanuman Jayanti. “If the Trinamul candidate had given food to a hungry child, it would have been more human and we would have welcomed it. He, too, said it was illegal to publicly display wild animals and would lodge a complaint with the Election Commission.

Source: The Telegraph April 21, 2019 20:03 UTC