KOLKATA: Making the Sandeshkhali stir as the party’s key poll plank in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal BJP on Thursday confirmed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would attend a political event on the outskirts of Kolkata where the saffron camp is planning to bring the North 24 Parganas island’s victims of alleged sexual abuses by the Trinamool Congress satraps.
“The Prime Minister will visit Kolkata and preliminarily the date has been fixed on March 6. Other than attending government programmes, he will be at an event in Barasat, North 24 Parganas, where a large number of women supporters will assemble. We will talk to the women of Sandeshkhali, who were sexually abused by the ruling party’s local leaders, and if they want, we will bring them at the event,” said BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar.
The Barasat event will be focused on the plight of the women in Sandeshkhali, said a source in the state BJP.
“We will assemble a large number of women at the venue. Our target will be bringing sexual abuse victims from Sandeshkhali to woo the women electorates highlighting TMC’s atrocities against them. The presence of the Prime Minister and Sandeshkhali victims will deliver a messages to the Hindu voters across the state against the ruling TMC,” said a BJP leader.
The leader said Barasat is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies that the saffron has targeted to snatch away from the TMC’s existing 19 seats in the state in the upcoming general elections.
While addressing a recent rally at Deganga in the same district, the Leader of Opposition had said, “Barasat is one of the Lok Sabha seats of 35 in the state that Union Home Minister Amit Shah selected to win in the 2024 LS polls.
