PM Modi gets felicitated at Nari Shakti Vandan programme at Barasat. (Image: YouTube/BJP)
The women of Sandeshkhali in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas had been staging protests against jailed and suspended TMC leader Sheikh Shahjahan and his aides, levelling charges of sexual abuse and land grab
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday addressed a women’s rally in West Bengal’s Barasat ahead of the International Women’s Day on March 8. He launched a scathing attack on the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government accusing it of creating roadblocks for the Centre in implementing schemes and called the women of Sandeshkhali my parivar (my family).
The women of Sandeshkhali in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas had been staging protests against jailed and suspended TMC leader Sheikh Shahjahan and his aides, levelling charges of sexual abuse and land grab.
#WATCH | West Bengal: At the women’s rally in Barasat, North 24 Parganas district, PM Modi says “Under TMC’s rule, the women of this land have been tortured. Whatever happened in Sandeshkhali will put anyone to shame but the TMC govt does not care about your issues. TMC is… pic.twitter.com/vDxCJra5ir— ANI (@ANI) March 6, 2024
At the women’s rally at Barasat in North 24 Parganas district, PM Modi said, “Under TMC’s rule, the women of this land have been tortured. Whatever happened in Sandeshkhali will put anyone to shame, but the TMC government does not care about your issues. TMC is putting efforts to protect the accused of the people of Bengal. The state has got a shock from the high court as well as the Supreme Court. TMC leaders have done atrocities on the women of the state. TMC has full confidence in their leader but not in the women of West Bengal.”