TMC

With the 2024 Lok Sabha elections just around the corner, the TMC is raking up the 'Bengali Vs Bihari' divide by painting Bhojpuri singer Pawan Singh as 'anti-Bengali.'

The fact-finding team was initially stopped by state administration on 25th February while they were going to Sandeshkhali.

In his public address at Krishnanagar, PM Modi said that while the women of Sandeshkahli "cried out for justice," the ruling party in the State "looked elsewhere."

"I did not know that he had a desire of eating pie (referring to sexual exploitation of women) at 12 o'clock", Udayan Guha was heard as saying.

TMC leader Derek O'Brien claimed that by the time West Bengal Police was given freedom, it took two days to arrest the culprit. However, Calcutta HC had clarified that there was never any 'stay' on his arrest

Sheikh Shahjahan was arrested after 55 days of absconding and was given a judicial custody of 10 days by a municipal court.

Calcutta HC refused urgent listing for bail plea of Sheikh Shahjahan, and came down heavily on the politician for absconding for almost two months before his arrest.

A recent survey by Zee News and Matrize says that the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) is set to win 24 seats out of 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, while BJP is likely to win 17 seats.

The West Bengal Police's role in the entire saga has exposed the corrupt state of law and order in the TMC-ruled state.

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.