A BJP press release said the party's women's wing held a mass meeting here in protest against the killing of "party member Sushmita Banerjee in Afghanistan by Islamic fundamentalists".
When contacted, Sushmita's brother Gopal Banerjee, however, said, "She was never a member of any political party."
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Sushmita Banerjee, whose memoir 'Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou' (A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife) about her dramatic escape from the clutches of the Taliban was turned into a Bollywood film, was killed outside her home in eastern Paktika province on September 4 by the militants.
She was married to Afghan businessman Jaanbaz Khan and recently moved back to Afghanistan to live with him.