Last month, a worker of the ruling Trinamool Congress Party and his family members brutally beat a pregnant woman in Belgharia, West Bengal, killing the foetus
The arrest of Sheikh Shahjahan has come after weeks of protests by the local women who have been voicing their outrage against the institutionalised sexual exploitation, rape, property encroachment, and corruption they have suffered at the hands of the influential TMC leader and his goons.
Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's 24 Pargana (North) has been on the boil for a couple of weeks several locals, especially women, took to the streets to protest against the rampant incidents of sexual assault and land grabbing being carried out by Shahjahan Sheikh and his goons.
The state unit of BJP shared a video clip wherein TMC MLA Narayan Goswami is heard making an extremely racist remark against the indigenous tribal women victims who have come on camera and spoken about the atrocities meted at them by the TMC goons.
West Bengal police working at the behest of CM Mamata Banerjee clashed with BJP workers who were trying to reach the SP's office in Basirhat to protest against the systematic sexual assault of Hindu women in Sandeshkhali at the hands of Trinamool Congress (TMC) goons