Bhubaneswar, Oct. 3: The ex-wife of former Odisha chief minister Giridhar Gamang's son Shishir Gamang today accused her ex-husband of trying to defame her.
Shishir had earlier accused his ex-wife Monica Bhrara of harassing him and their 10-year-old son. He had approached the police and the Odisha Human Rights Commission regarding this.
Monica today denied the allegations and said the 40-year-old Shishir was trying to defame her.
Monica, who lives in Delhi, threatened to take legal action against Shishir. The former CM's son had joined the BJP last year along with his father, a nine-time MP who was also the chief minister of the state for almost 10 months in 1999. Shishir also had a stint with the Congress.
"I have been staying separately from him (in Delhi) since 2009 due to his bad behaviour. He used to physically assault me under the influence of alcohol. It was his drinking habit, which forced me to leave him. We had mutually agreed to a divorce in 2012," Monica told The Telegraph from New Delhi.
Monica, who had married Shishir in 2003, has also joined the battle with her estranged husband on social media, accusing him of manufacturing stories to malign her image.
"Use a woman's restricted pictures and threaten your son to read out a script in a press conference. You come from a political family and everything is fair for you in your war," she said in response to one of Shishir's post on a social networking site.
On Saturday, Shishir had accused Monica of perpetrating mental and physical torture on him and his 10-year-old son. He also alleged that his former wife, a native of Uttarakhand, had taken away cash and gold ornaments worth crores of rupees from his family. Claiming that they had remarried according to tribal traditions in 2014 after the divorce, the young BJP leader had alleged that Monica and her boyfriend had also slapped his son. He had even lodged an FIR in this regard.
Monica said: "Shishir claimed that I remarried in accordance with the tribal traditions at Koraput in 2014. The fact was that it was his brother's marriage. Though initially I was hesitant to attend the wedding, my father-in-law urged me to join them. Subsequently, I went to Koraput to attend the wedding. If he has any proof of our reunion, he should produce it."
