BENGAL POLICE, TMC ATTEMPT TO BLUNT SANDESHKHALI PROTESTS

After being on the back foot for months after the women of Sandeshkhali rose in protest against atrocities committed on them by Trinamool Congress leaders, the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government and party are pulling out all stops to contain the damage.

- SUPROTIM MUKHERJEE

At the forefront of this drive is the West Bengal police.

Shifting into attack mode, the Trinamool Congress, through its social media team, has made a series of videos viral. These videos ostensibly show admissions by BJP workers that the Sandeshkhali protests were planned and funded by BJP leaders led by the Leader of the Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari.

However, questions are being raised about the authenticity of the videos, especially if the videos have been edited in a manner to show the Sandeshkhali protests as fake and politically inspired.

Citing the videos, all Trinamool leaders, including party supremo Mamata Banerjee and second in command Abhishek Banerjee, have started aggressively blaming the BJP for the Sandeshkhali issue.

The TMC is claiming that nothing happened in Sandeshkhali and hundreds of village women who rose up in protest, were making fake allegations against TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh and his men.

The first video is 32 minutes 42 seconds long, where BJP’s mandal president in Sandeshkhali, Gangadhar Kayal, is heard saying that a “false” complaint of rape was filed in Sandeshkhali for money and that TMC leaders were jailed for the planned manipulation.