As part of damage control move, two TMC ministers Partha Bhowmik and Sujit Basi visited the trouble-hit island on Saturday and faced locals’ ire in their stronghold. More than two hundred women surrounded Basu and Bhowmik to narrate their light caused by the local leaders of the party. As both ministers patiently heard the aggrieved villages, the villagers also complained about forcible land grabbing and demanded immediate arrest of TMC strongman Shahjahan and the state government’s intervention.The villagers, mainly women, protested when Bhowmik made a remark that they were taught to demand Shahjahan’s arrest by “someone”.Basu, however, told the villagers that what happened with them cannot be fixed now but he assured that there would be no re-run of the highhandedness.“We have listened the villagers’ complaint and will inform Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee,” said Basu.Taking a jibe at the two TMC minister’s Sandeshkhali visit, CPI(M)’s cenral committee member Sujan Chakrabarty said the duo went to the area to hoodwink the victims of the atrocities lashed out by their own party leaders but they were given a befitting reply.Sandeshkhali has been on the boil since three officers of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) were bashed up and left bleeding when they went to search the house of local TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh regarding a foodgrain scam case on January 5.On seeing the TMC leader and his two henchmen Shibaprasad Hazra and Uttam Sardar at large since the attack on the federal agency, women of the area mustered up their courage to protests against the sexual abuse on them by the alleged ruling party’s satraps.
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