Lok Sabha elections: ‘I will visit Sandeshkhali when…’ — here is what Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said in Basirhat

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Amid criticism that the chief minister did not find it necessary to visit Sandeshkhali in West Bengal despite massive protests by local women over alleged sexual atrocities, CM and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she would visit the region “within a few days". “As soon as our candidate Haji Nurul wins Basirhat, my first visit will be to Sandeshkhali within a few days. I will go to meet the people there," she said.  

During her first visit to the Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency since the Sandeshkhali unrest in January, Mamata Banerjee said she was heartbroken over the plight of women in the trouble-torn area.

While addressing an election rally in Basirhat, she also asserted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should not have played with the dignity of women in Sandeshkhali as the “saffron camp's conspiracy now stands exposed". 

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“I am sorry for whatever has happened to the women of Sandeshkhali and the way they have been humiliated. I express my sadness from the core of my heart. Nobody should dare to play with the dignity of women," said the West Bengal chief minister.

“People would have never understood how the BJP had hatched the conspiracy, had the videos not surfaced. The BJP should not play with the dignity of women," Banerjee said 

Slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi for talking to Sandeshkhali protester and BJP candidate Rekha Patra over the phone, Banerjee alleged that the country has the “worst track record in terms of women's safety and security under the BJP rule". 

The Trinamool Congress chief’s comments came against the backdrop of multiple purported videos surfacing on social media, which claimed that a local BJP leader made several women