BJP’s Sukanta Majumdar criticizes Mamata Banerjee over TMC’s response to PM Modi’s remarks on Sandeshkhali

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 5 (ANI): BJP MP Sukanta Majumdar has criticized West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying that the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) cannot refute the statements made by the Prime Minister regarding Cooch Behar and Sandeshkhali.

“There is such a rule in the proceedings of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha that if someone makes a wrong statement, it can be removed. But today, can the TMC say that whatever PM Modi said about Cooch Behar and Sandeshkhali is a lie?” Majumdar said on Thursday.

His remarks came in response to the TMC’s letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar urging him to expunge Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks made in the House on the Chopra and Sandeshkhali incidents in West Bengal. The letter was written by TMC’s deputy leader in Rajya Sabha, Sagarika Ghose, on Wednesday. The BJP leader described the West Bengal CM as a good painter who has been allegedly spoiling the image of the state.

“West Bengal’s image has been spoiled by Mamata Banerjee. She is a good painter. She is using just one colour, and that is black,” Majumdar added.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday slammed the West Bengal government over the Sandeshkhali incident and the recent beating of a couple by people associated with a political party and said that those considering themselves to be progressive women leaders have remained silent on the matter.

The remarks by PM Modi came while he was replying to the debate on the ‘motion of thanks’ in the President’s address in the Rajya Sabha.

He said, “The pictures of the Sandeshkhali incident are spine-chilling, but the pain is not reflected even in the words of the big leaders whom I have been listening to since yesterday. What can be a bigger picture of shame than this?”

Without taking any names, Modi added further, “Those who consider themselves progressive women leaders have also kept mum because the incident is related to the party or state associated with their political life.”

Sandeshkhali, a village in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, had been in a political storm after villagers, mostly women, came out on the streets against the ruling TMC and its strongman Shahjahan, accusing him and his aides of “land-grab and sexual assault” under coercion. He was later arrested. Both the BJP and the Trinamool Congress have been levelling charges against each other over Sandeshkhali.