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Lok Sabha polls: Anti-Sandeshkhali survivor posters appear after BJP fields Rekha Patra from Basirhat | India News
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NEW DELHI: Handwritten posters denouncing the candidature of Rekha Patra appeared in Sandeshkhali area on Monday after BJP fielded her from Basirhat seat for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Posters bearing slogans such as ‘We don’t want Rekha as a candidate’ and ‘We don’t want Rekha Patra as BJP candidate’ were seen a day after BJP announced her nomination from the seat.
BJP blamed TMC, which rejected the charges.
A local BJP leader said, “Trinamool Congress has done this to indulge in cheap politics.”
“Let (Bengal CM) Mamata Banerjee wipe the tears of women like her, who are suffering in silence, and are subject to her apathy, before she asks for their vote,” Amit Malviya, the BJP’s West Bengal co-incharge, said in a post on X.
It is notable that Rekha Patra is one of the alleged victims of torture at the hands of arrested and now-susoended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh and his aides. Patra was among the most vocal protestors of Sandeshkhali. The police arrested Shibu Hazra, a local muscleman and Shajahan Sheikh’s associate, based on her complaint.
Patra was also among the women group that met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of his public meeting in Barasat on March 6 and narrated the plight of Sandeshkhali women to the PM.
However, some women of the locality are happy that Patra got the nomination to contest the election.
“We could not see an MP in the past. Now we may have an MP from our village,” one of the local women said.
Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district was on the boil for several days over allegation of sexual atrocities on women and grabbong by Sheikh and his cohorts.
Shahjahan Sheikh was arrested by West Bengal Police for assaulting Enforcement Directorate officers on January 5. Later, the case was tranferred to CBI which took Sheikh into its custody.
Posters bearing slogans such as ‘We don’t want Rekha as a candidate’ and ‘We don’t want Rekha Patra as BJP candidate’ were seen a day after BJP announced her nomination from the seat.
BJP blamed TMC, which rejected the charges.
A local BJP leader said, “Trinamool Congress has done this to indulge in cheap politics.”
“Let (Bengal CM) Mamata Banerjee wipe the tears of women like her, who are suffering in silence, and are subject to her apathy, before she asks for their vote,” Amit Malviya, the BJP’s West Bengal co-incharge, said in a post on X.
It is notable that Rekha Patra is one of the alleged victims of torture at the hands of arrested and now-susoended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh and his aides. Patra was among the most vocal protestors of Sandeshkhali. The police arrested Shibu Hazra, a local muscleman and Shajahan Sheikh’s associate, based on her complaint.
Patra was also among the women group that met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of his public meeting in Barasat on March 6 and narrated the plight of Sandeshkhali women to the PM.
However, some women of the locality are happy that Patra got the nomination to contest the election.
“We could not see an MP in the past. Now we may have an MP from our village,” one of the local women said.
Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district was on the boil for several days over allegation of sexual atrocities on women and grabbong by Sheikh and his cohorts.
Shahjahan Sheikh was arrested by West Bengal Police for assaulting Enforcement Directorate officers on January 5. Later, the case was tranferred to CBI which took Sheikh into its custody.
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