New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday interacted with a gaggle of ladies from Sandeshkhali, who’ve alleged sexual abuse by TMC leaders, BJP sources mentioned to Zee News Television. “PM Modi met the victims like a father figure. They were very emotional with the fact that PM understood their pain,” 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 public meeting, the Prime Minister had a conversation with some women from Sandeshkhali. The women narrated the horrors that they had faced,” information company PTI quoted BJP state basic secretary Agnimitra Paul as saying.
Earlier within the day, Modi known as the ladies of Sandeshkhali his parivar (household) and slammed the Trinamool Congress (TMC) authorities for safeguarding the accused within the Sandeshkhali case and mentioned that it was a “matter of shame.”
Speaking at a girls’s rally at Barasat, North 24 Parganas district, PM Modi mentioned that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was devoted to the reason for girls’s empowerment and security.
“Under TMC’s rule, the women of this land have been oppressed. What happened in Sandeshkhali would shock anyone but the TMC government does not care about your issues. TMC government is determined to save the culprit. Their acts were first denounced by the High Court and then the Supreme Court as well. TMC leaders have committed atrocities on the women of the state. Leaders of TMC are harassing the women from poor, Dalit, and Adivasis groups. TMC govt trusts its leaders more than it trusts the women of Bengal. TMC has full faith in their leader but not in the women 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 is just not permitting the event of this state to progress.
“TMC government can never provide security to women. Whereas, the BJP government has decided to award life imprisonment for heinous crimes like rape. For easy registration of women’s complaints, we have arranged for a ‘Women Helpine’, but the TMC government is not letting it operate in West Bengal. This TMC government can never work for the welfare of women,” he added.
The Prime Minister additional claimed that this enormous program is proof of how BJP is making ‘Naari Shakti’ the ability of ‘Viksit Bharat’. “On 9th January, BJP started the ‘Shakti Vandan’ campaign across the country. During this, interactions with lakhs of self-help groups were done across the country and today, in West Bengal there is a huge program organised for members of the self-help groups,” he mentioned.
Tension rose in Sandeshkhali after a whole lot 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 together 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 remanded him to 10-day police custody.
