“Will be back at Sandeshkhali”: BJP delegation after visiting Bengal Governor

The BJP delegation, which met West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose after being stopped from visiting Sandeshkhali on Friday, said they will personally interact with the women protesters in the area after securing permission from the Supreme Court.
The women in Sandeshkhali have been up in arms over the last few days accusing fugitive TMC strongman Sheikh Shah Jahan and his henchmen of sexual abuse and other excesses.
“Today, we had to return after being blocked mid-way into our journey to Sandeshkhali. We will move a petition in the Supreme Court, urging that we be allowed to go to Sandeshkhali. We will definitely go there. The way women, children and newlywed brides have been tortured in Sandeshkhali by TMC goons and the police will be highlighted. They will get justice,” Annapurna Devi, a member of the BJP delegation, told reporters after visiting the Governor on Friday.
Also the Union Minister of State for Education, Annapurna Devi said the party delegation will also be calling on President Droupadi Murmu in Delhi to brief her about the events in Sandeshkhali.
Hitting out at the state police for not fulfilling their duty and acting as ‘TMC cadres’, Annapurna said they have turned into ‘oppressors’ instead of being ‘protectors’.
“We will submit our report to the party. The police are not doing their job. They are serving as TMC goons in uniform. They have become TMC workers. The job of the police is to provide security to the people. Here, instead of being protectors, they have turned oppressors,” the BJP MP said.
Narrating an incident of alleged police atrocity on the women protesters, Annapurna said, “Sandeskhkhali women are not able to say anything in fear. When we were in Rampur and were holding a conversation with them over a video call. Concealing their faces, they shared their ordeals with us and from the back, police were seen attacking them.”
The BJP Minister also shared that the Governor is saddened by the incident.
“We gave all the information to the Governor and he is also saddened by the incident. He has directed the state government to act on this incident,” Annapurna Devi said speaking to ANI.
BJP MP and delegation member Sunita Duggal, too, asserted that they will come back to Sandeshkhali after getting permission from the apex court.
“We will take permission from the Supreme Court and go there (Sandeshkhali),” Duggal told ANI.
On the report to be submitted to the party, Duggal said, “We will prepare our report and submit it to the (BJP) national president (JP Nadda).”
The Lok Sabha MP from Haryana shared that it is heart-wrenching to see how a woman chief minister could inflict so much ‘torture’ on fellow women.
“The law and order situation here is terrible, people are terrorised by Didi. It is hard to imagine a woman chief minister inflicting such torture on fellow women. The BJP will do them justice,” Duggal said.
Sangeeta Yadav, another delegation member, said it was the first time that she witnessed such violence in West Bengal.
“I have only heard about such violence but today I saw it. The Governor himself is unhappy. We will definitely meet those women after securing permission from the court. We will fight to get them justice,” the Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh told ANI.
Recommending President’s Rule in the state, Duggal said, “President’s Rule should be imposed here. Despite being a woman, you (Mamata Banerjee) cannot understand their sorrows. Could there be anything worse or more unfortunate? A woman (Sandeshkhali protester) video-called us. As we finished our conversation, the police started hitting her and others around her.”
BJP leader Agnimitra Paul, who was also a member of the delegation, claimed that Union Ministers such as Annapurna Devi and Pratima Bhowmik were heckled while on their way to Sandeshkhali on Friday.
“We spoke about the injustice that was meted out to us. Our Union ministers, including Annapurna Devi and Pratima Bhowmik, were heckled today and the media was not allowed to visit there. We complained about all this to the Governor,” Paul told ANI.
The BJP delegation also visited the Apollo Hospital in Salt Lake to meet the party’s state president Sukanta Majumdar, who lost consciousness during a scuffle that broke out between security forces and party supporters on Wednesday while he was leading a sit-in protest against the prevailing situation in Sandeshkhali.
Meanwhile, Union Minister and BJP leader Nisith Pramanik hit out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for being a ‘mute spectator’ to the events in Sandeshkhali.
“The law and order situation in West Bengal has completely collapsed. It is a shame that a woman CM is a mute spectator to all the atrocities of the TMC on fellow women. Today, the people of Bengal are asking who is responsible for these atrocities by TMC goons?” Pramanik told ANI.
Pramanik added that the central government can help the state control the situation in Sandeshkhali and also assist in tracking down Sheikh Shah Jahan, who has been at large since the attempted raid by ED on his residence.
“If Mamata Banerjee so wishes, the Home Ministry is ready to help the state government control the situation in Sandeshkhali. If she wants the Centre’s help in finding out Sheikh Shah Jahan and his associates, we are ready to extend all assistance,” he said