‘BJP forced 3 Sandeshkhali women make false rape plaints, sign blank papers’

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday alleged that the women in Sandeshkhali claimed they were made to sign on a white paper by a woman BJP leader and then false rape complaints were written in their names.

On Thursday, TMC’s spokesperson Riju Dutta claimed on his social media X account: “Not one, but at least 3 women of Sandeshkhali publicly named @BJP4Bengal leader Piyali Das, who deceived them into signing on a white paper.”

Dutta was rebutting a post by BJP’s IT cell head Amit Malviya. Dutta further wrote: “All of these women have claimed that the rape complaints were FAKE. They even said that the BJP leader (who is not even a voter of Sandeshkhali and was brought from Delhi) had threatened these women who wanted to revoke the false complaints made in their name.

You and your bosses’ conspiracy has been exposed.

People of Bengal, especially women, will teach you a lesson, democratically. For mere votes, you people played with the modesty of women of Sandeshkhali. Shameful!

What else can we expect from a Party that is a breeding ground for RAPISTS?”

Malviya had written on social media: “... the WB Police was so eager to please the Bengal CM that they forced women, including now BJP candidate Rekha Patra, to say on camera, that they were never raped and had been

receiving all assistance. Their cover up blew up when the BJP got access to Rekha’s affidavit in Court, in which she had stayed firm on the rape charge. The BJP has since filed a case on Bengal DGP and others for revealing a rape victim’s identity, in violation of Supreme Court’s order.” He also alleged that the video being referred to by TMC was AI generated and the BJP leader Gangadhar Kayal who was purportedly seen in it claiming that it was a BJP conspiracy,denied saying anything