“As Mamata Banerjee dismisses Sandeshkhali violence, here’s how she had sent Pakistan-born Ahmed Hasan Imran, with links to terror groups, to Rajya Sabha”, Opindia, February 16, 2024:

“The horror unleashed on Hindu women in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, shocked the nation. Even as Hindu women in Sandeshkhali recount harrowing accounts of rape, sexual exploitation, and threats by TMC members, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, after maintaining a deafening silence, defended her party leader Shahjahan Sheikh and his aides.

While many Hindu women in Sandeshkhali have been subjected to unspeakable atrocities by Shahjahan Sheikh and his aides, Mamata Banerjee cleared her aide and shamelessly blamed the BJP and the RSS. Banerjee claimed that Sandeshkhali had become an RSS bunker.

Mamata Banerjee, a woman herself and frequently hailed by the liberal lobby as a beacon of democracy, secularism, liberalism, and whatnot, gave a clean chit to her aide Shahjahan Sheikh, saying the women who accused Sheikh of land grabbing and sexual assault did so under coercion and that the police has no records of rape. She signalled that the women of Sandheskhali had not been wronged and that this was a BJP ploy to target TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh…..”

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