Amid the ongoing Lok Sabha election a fresh controversy has erupted after Trinamool Congress released a video on social media, claiming that the Sandeshkhali incident was a “conspiracy” by the Bharatiya Janata Party to defame West Bengal ahead of the polls.
The video which was highlighted by the Trinamool leadership where a person whom the State’s ruling party who claimed to be a BJP mandal president in Sandeshkhali, was heard saying that leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly “Suvendu Adhikari is behind the whole conspiracy”.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during the election campaign highlighted the video and said that the conspiracy of the BJP has been exposed. “Never before in the history of India has a ruling party in Delhi tried to malign an entire State and its people. History will witness how Bengal will rise in rage against Delhi’s conspiratorial regime & ensure their bishorjon [relinquishment],” the Chief Minister said.