Kolkata:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will go to the riverine island of Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district today– a primary for the reason that sexual harassment controversy broke out forward of the Lok Sabha election. However the Chief of Opposition, BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari won’t be far behind. Mr Adhikari has introduced that he would maintain a ‘Jana Sanjog Yatra’ within the space the day after the Chief Minister’s go to.
The Chief Minister can be heading for Sandeshkhali early at the moment to chair a public distribution programme.
The obscure island in West Bengal had hit the headlines earlier this yr, earlier than the Lok Sabha elections.
Its set off was the protest by the locals in opposition to alleged incidents of sexual assault and land grabbing. They blamed the native Trinamool strongman Sheikh Shahjahan — who has since been suspended by the get together — and his two aides, Shibu Prasad Hazra and Uttam Sardar.
The Trinamool later held a press convention on a sequence sting operations during which a video surfaced on social media. It confirmed a former BJP chief purportedly claiming that the entire episode was “scripted by the BJP”.
The Trinamool stated the allegations of sexual harassment had been politically motivated, meant to defame the get together.
The BJP claimed the allegations had been an instance of the Trinamool misrule and exploitation of girls.
Within the Lok Sabha election, the Trinamool Congress gained the Basirhat seat, inside which the Sandeshkhali meeting seat is positioned.
Sheikh Shahjahan was arrested on February 29 after he managed to evade the police for round two months. He went on the run after his supporters attacked three Enforcement Directorate officers who visited Sandeshkhali on January 5. The assault had let the officers injured.