The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday hit out at chief minister Mamata Banerjee for her feedback on RSS being behind the violence in Sandeshkhali, West Bengal. Attacking Mamata Banerjee BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad stated, “A woman chief minister is saying so. Shame on you. Why have you become so ugly, so cruel, so anti-women Mamataji?”
BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad.(HT File)
The BJP chief additional stated that if a BJP chief minister had made comparable feedback then it will have been made a giant deal. “This is called shameful double standards,” BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad stated.
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday blamed the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh for the unrest within the Sandeshkhali village. Mamata claimed that the RSS had ‘different plans’ for allegedly inciting violence within the area. “RSS has a base there. Riots took place there 7-8 years back. It is one of the vulnerable riot spots. We handled the situation strongly during Saraswati Puja or else there were other plans,” the TMC supremo stated.
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“I sent the state commission and administration there. 17 people have been arrested so far…Our women’s team is present there. A women police team is visiting people at their doorsteps to listen to their grievances,” Banerjee added.
Sandeshkhali, a village within the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, has been witnessing widespread protests for the previous few days. Women residing within the village held protests on the streets demanding the speedy arrest of TMC chief Shajahan Sheikh and his associates for allegedly subjecting them to years of torture and sexual harassment.
Representatives from the West Bengal Commission for Women and the National Commission for Scheduled Castes visited Sandeshkhali within the aftermath of the state of affairs. The state administration additionally initiated a probe into the incidents and appointed a 10-member staff of senior IPS officers to look into the identical.
(With companies’ inputs)
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