A journalist turned politician Sagarika Ghose took to X on Thursday to downplay the events in Sandeshkhali village in North Parganas district of West Bengal as a ‘local land dispute’.
This happened soon after Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee led a rally of Trinamool Congress’ Mahila Wing workers in Kolkata.
The event, based on the theme of ‘Mahilader Adhikar, Amader Angikar’ (Women’s rights, our commitment)’, allegedly saw the participation of women from Sandeshkhali.
Ghose got a Rajya Sabha seat recently. She tweeted, “Exhilarating experience on the women’s march today led by India’s only woman chief minister @MamataOfficial ahead of #InternationalWomensDay. A pleasure to meet @abhishekaitc on the march.”
Sagarika Ghose deliberately downplayed the unrest in Sandeshkhali village, which took place after women took to the streets demanding justice for the atrocities committed against them by TMC goons.
She brushed off the controversy as a ‘local land dispute.’ According to the media sources, the women of Sandeshkhali narrated the sexual exploitation suffered by them at the hands of TMC leaders such as Sheikh Shahjahan and his aides Uttam Sardar and Shiba Prasad Hazra.
While illegal land grabbing by the Trinamool Congress was one the main concerns of the villagers. Ghose cleverly dismissed key concerns of women’s safety and threats of gang rape received by the victims of her party leaders.
She also said, ‘Villagers will continue to vote for the TMC’.
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