Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, where several women have alleged sexual assault by a prominent Trinamool Congress leader and his aides, leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari said on Monday.
In an interview, the Bharatiya Janata Party leader said that preparations are underway and the dates for PM Modi’s visit will be finalised by PMO.
“Mamata Banerjee will lose the Lok Sabha elections and that is why she is doing all this. She has not done any development work…They will not arrest (Sheikh Shahjahan) because they need goons during elections and they have given him protection,” the BJP leader, who defeated the Trinamool Congress chief in Nandigram in 2021 assembly election, said.
Several women in Sandeshkhali have accused local TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh and his supporters of land grab and sexual assault. Sheikh is absconding after a mob attacked Enforcement Directorate officials who had gone there to search his premises in connection with a ration scam case.
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