"Trinamool Government Has Surpassed CPM's Rule In Atrocities": BJP on Sandeshkhali

BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said, "When Mamata Banerjee struggled (in the past) against the CPM's atrocities and sat on an indefinite agitation against it, we all had become her fan and lauded her struggle."

The Mamata Banerjee-led government has surpassed the erstwhile CPM dispensation in subjecting the people of West Bengal to atrocities, the BJP claimed on Wednesday, saying the people will give a befitting reply to the ruling Trinamool Congress in the Lok Sabha elections.

Raising the issue of alleged sexual harassment of women in Sadeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, senior BJP leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also slammed the Congress and other constituents of the opposition INDIA bloc, questioning their silence on the matter.

"The Sandeshkhali issue is becoming very serious. The assault, humiliating treatment, sexual assault on women is a shame on our society and democracy," Mr Prasad said at a press conference at the BJP headquarters in the national capital.