New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday interacted with a bunch of ladies from Sandeshkhali, who’ve alleged sexual abuse by TMC leaders, BJP sources mentioned to Zee Information Tv. “PM Modi met the victims like a father determine. They have been very emotional with the truth that PM understood their ache,” the occasion sources added. PM Modi met them after addressing a public rally at Barasat in North 24 Parganas district, the place Sandeshkhali is located.
“Following the general public assembly, the Prime Minister had a dialog with some girls from Sandeshkhali. The ladies narrated the horrors that that they had confronted,” information company PTI quoted BJP state normal secretary Agnimitra Paul as saying.
Earlier within the day, Modi referred to as the ladies of Sandeshkhali his parivar (household) and slammed the Trinamool Congress (TMC) authorities for shielding the accused within the Sandeshkhali case and mentioned that it was a “matter of disgrace.”
Talking at a girls’s rally at Barasat, North 24 Parganas district, PM Modi mentioned that the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) was devoted to the reason for girls’s empowerment and security.
“Beneath TMC’s rule, the ladies of this land have been oppressed. What occurred in Sandeshkhali would shock anybody however the TMC authorities doesn’t care about your points. TMC authorities is set to save lots of the offender. Their acts have been first denounced by the Excessive Court docket after which the Supreme Court docket as effectively. TMC leaders have dedicated atrocities on the ladies of the state. Leaders of TMC are harassing the ladies from poor, Dalit, and Adivasis teams. TMC govt trusts its leaders greater than it trusts the ladies of Bengal. TMC has full religion of their chief however not within the girls of West Bengal,” the Prime Minister mentioned.
PM Modi additionally mentioned that there’s a shadow within the identify of TMC in Bengal including that West Bengal CM shouldn’t be permitting the event of this state to progress.
“TMC authorities can by no means present safety to girls. Whereas, the BJP authorities has determined to award life imprisonment for heinous crimes like rape. For simple registration of ladies’s complaints, we’ve organized for a ‘Girls Helpine’, however the TMC authorities shouldn’t be letting it function in West Bengal. This TMC authorities can by no means work for the welfare of ladies,” he added.
The Prime Minister additional claimed that this big program is proof of how BJP is making ‘Naari Shakti’ the facility of ‘Viksit Bharat’. “On ninth January, BJP began the ‘Shakti Vandan’ marketing campaign throughout the nation. Throughout this, interactions with lakhs of self-help teams have been executed throughout the nation and right this moment, in West Bengal there’s a big program organised for members of the self-help teams,” he mentioned.
Stress rose in Sandeshkhali after lots of of ladies on the island got here out on the streets in opposition to Shahjahan Sheikh, accusing him of perpetrating sexual abuse and different excesses on them alongside along with his henchmen. After weeks of no motion, on February 29 Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Sheikh Shahjahan was arrested by West Bengal police after which West Bengal’s Basirhat Court docket remanded him to 10-day police custody.
