Visiting Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district for the primary time because the space was hit by unrest early this 12 months, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday referred to as upon its residents to place the previous behind and transfer ahead in the direction of progress and improvement.
Mamata urged the native individuals to not give bribes to anybody to avail of any authorities welfare scheme.
The CM was addressing an official public distribution programme on the Rishi Aurobindo Mission floor in Sandeshkhali. She had introduced final week that she would attend this occasion as per her promise made in the course of the marketing campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The TMC’s Sandeshkhali unit made elaborate preparations to welcome Mamata for the occasion. “The whole Sandeshkhali island, particularly these roads resulting in Mission floor, have been lined with flags,” stated a neighborhood TMC activist. “We didn’t see such a lot of TMC flags even in the course of the Lok Saha elections. Additionally, the gathering within the floor was large.”
Sandeshkhali was within the information earlier this 12 months because of widespread protests by native individuals, together with ladies, over varied incidents of sexual assault and land grabbing allegedly involving suspended TMC strongman Sheikh Shahjahan and his two aides, Shibu Prasad Hazra and Uttam Sardar.
On January 5, Sheikh Shahjahan’s supporters allegedly attacked three Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers in Sandeshkhali, after they had gone to raid his residence in reference to the ration distribution “rip-off”.
On February 8, a number of native ladies of Sandeshkhali took to the streets with brooms and sticks, and blocked the street demanding fast arrest of Shahjahan and his aides.
Whereas the BJP went all out to rake up the Sandeshkhali hassle to place the Mamata dispensation within the dock, the TMC accused the BJP of allegedly “orchestrating” it to tarnish its authorities’s picture.
On February 15, the CM stated within the Meeting {that a} “sinister design” was at play in Sandeshkhali. “It has come to gentle how BJP employees have been introduced and the way violence has been instigated within the space (Sandeshkhali). The first goal was (TMC chief) Sheikh Shahjahan and ED entered the world focusing on him. Following this, they ousted everybody from there and fabricated an adivasis (tribals) versus minorities combat,” she alleged. “It’s not new. The RSS has a base there. Riots occurred there seven to eight years again. It is among the weak riot spots. We dealt with the state of affairs strongly throughout Saraswati Puja or else there have been different plans.”
Shahjahan was arrested on February 29 after being on the run for round two months. He in addition to Hazra and Sardar have now been in judicial custody.
In her speech Monday, Mamata referred to the land registration issues, saying “Duare Sarkar (TMC authorities’s programme to make sure the supply of schemes to individuals) will probably be held in Sandeshkhali from January final week to February first week. The native individuals can resolve their land registration points there. I do know there are some land-related issues right here.”
Concentrating on the BJP, the TMC chief stated, “I do know every little thing, how cash performed an enormous function in Sandeshkhali (unrest). However, you’ll be able to see, lies don’t final for lengthy. Reality at all times prevails. I’ve forgotten every little thing. I need Sandeshkhali to maneuver forward. Girls and boys of Sandeshkhali ought to transfer forward and grow to be profitable of their lives. Sandeshkhali shouldn’t be a spot for riots.”
Mamata additionally advised the residents: “Don’t give cash to anyone to get any authorities scheme. That is authorities cash, it belongs to individuals, to you. Your cash is being returned (within the type of schemes) in your advantages.”
The CM urged native ladies “to not go anyplace if somebody asks them to” as it’s their proper to get varied authorities schemes at their doorsteps. She maintained that moms and sisters are the satisfaction of the nation.
Curiously, Chief of Opposition (LoP) within the state Meeting and BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari goes to carry a “Jana Sanjog Yatra” in Sandeshkhali on Tuesday.
On Monday, Adhikari criticised Mamata for asking individuals to neglect the previous. He additionally claimed that many ladies residents of Sandeshkhali skipped the CM’s occasion.
On Saturday, Adhikari had stated he stood by Sandeshkhali throughout tough instances. “The CM goes. It’s good, I’ll do a programme the subsequent day (December 31). I’ll not have the ability to organise an enormous occasion just like the CM,” he stated.
Taking a swipe on the TMC authorities’s distribution programme, he claimed, “Even when the CM goes and provides one crore rupees, the individuals of the SC, ST group won’t vote for Trinamool!”
Mamata has been buoyed by the TMC’s efficiency within the Lok Sabha polls through which her social gathering bagged 29 of 42 seats within the state as towards the BJP’s 12. Since then, the TMC has additionally swept all 10 Meeting seats within the bypolls.
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