The West Bengal chief minister said the prime minister was maintaining a ‘stoic silence’ on sexual harassment allegations against Governor CV Ananda Bose.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday alleged that the Trinamool Congress was threatening the women of West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali village who had accused party functionaries of sexual abuse and land-grabbing.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, however, accused the prime minister of “peddling lies”, reported PTI.
At an election rally in Barrackpore, Modi said: “All of us have seen what the Trinamool Congress has done with the sisters and mothers of Sandeshkhali. First, the Trinamool Congress tried to protect the accused with the help of the police. The party has now started a new game. Their goons are terrorising and threatening the women there because the perpetrator’s name is Sheikh Shahjahan.”
He said the Trinamool Congress was “trying to protect the culprit to appease its vote bank”.
The remarks came four days after one of the women who had accused now-suspended Trinamool Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh of rape withdrew her complaint.
On Wednesday, the woman stated that the complaint was false and alleged that a worker from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s women’s wing and other party workers had visited her home and forced her to sign a blank paper.
