Both leaders of Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Prime Minister Narendra Mmodi were locked in accusations each other on Sandeshkhali issue, where allegedly a TMC leader resorted to sexual abuse of women, besides encroachment of their lands.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who addressed as many as four election rallies in West Bengal on Sunday attacked TMC over a host of issues including alleged corruption, appeasement politics, Sandeshkhali issue, polarisation, and infiltration.
About Sandeshkhali, the prime minister said, “Trinamool has started a new game with Sandeshkhali. Bombs and guns are being recovered from Sheikh Shahjahan’s house. Trinamool wants to save Shahjahan for vote bank. The whole country saw what happened in Sandeshkhali. Trinamool is intimidating the women of Sandeshkhali now.”
“The accused in the Sandeshkhali case was first saved by Trinamool’s police. The name of the oppressor is Sheikh Shahjahan and that’s why they are trying to save him. Trinamool is trying to give him a clean chit,” Modi was seen saying in Barrackpore.
The prime minister, however, didn’t say anything about the recent videos that have surfaced debunking the issue of sexual exploitation of women in Sandeshkhali and turning fingers against a BJP conspiracy.
Ahead of PM rallies, TMC leader Derek O’Brien tore into claims made by Prime Minister Modi at poll rallies in West Bengal, saying two videos that have come out on the Sandeshkhali issue have exposed the “conspiracy to malign” the state.
On a day when Modi addressed four rallies in West Bengal, O’Brien shared a fact-check report on X and called the prime minister the “Lyin King”. “We often fact check Narendra Modi…. ‘The Lyin King’ just ended his third and fourth speeches. So much deceit, falsehood and hate, that even our fact check meter broke down,” the TMC leader said in a post on the microblogging platform.
He alleged that the two Sandeshkhali videos exposed BJP’s conspiracy to malign Bengal and humiliate women. “Concocted by Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikhari. Bribed and forced women to sign a blank paper and file false rape complaints. BJP shelters molesters: Brij Bhushan Singh, Prajwal Revanna. Unnao, Kathua, Hathras,” the document shared by O’Brien read.
Multiple videos have surfaced on social media, purportedly claiming that a local BJP leader made several women from Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal sign on blank papers that were subsequently filled up as sexual assault complaints against TMC leaders.
