Sandeshkhali survivor Rekha Patra on Tuesday asserted to fulfil the responsibility given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) named her as the candidate from Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a telephonic call to Sandeshkhali survivor Rekha Patra on Tuesday after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) named her as the candidate from Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced the names of 111 candidates in its fifth list for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, including a woman who was a survivor of violence in the Sandeshkhali area of West Bengal.
"The CBI had prayed for six-day police custody of Sheikh Shahjahan, Sukumar Sardar and Mehbul Molla in case no. 8 of Nazat Police Station. The learned court allowed it...," Raja Bhaumik, the lawyer representing Sheikh Shahjahan and other accused in the Sandeshkhali ED assault case told ANI.
Home Secretaries in six states-namely Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have been asked to step down. Additionally, the secretaries of the General Administrative Department in Mizoram and Himachal Pradesh have been removed.
The CBI on Saturday arrested Sheikh Alamgir, brother of recently arrested Sandehskhali strongman Sheikh Shahjahan, and two others for allegedly spearheading an attack on the visiting ED team on January 5.
Women from the tribal and Dalit communities in Sandeshkhali opened up about the alleged atrocities perpetrated on them by suspended and jailed TMC strongman Sheikh Shahjahan and his henchmen, demanding that his two brothers be arrested as well in connection with the incidents.
As many as 11 victims of violence including five women from Sandeshkhali met President Droupadi Murmu, in Rashtrapati Bhawan on Friday and sought her intervention "to safeguard the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe community" in Sandeshkhali, West Bengal.
The agency conducted these raids days after Shahjahan was arrested. Shahjahan, accused of sexual violence and land grab in Sandeshkhali village, was arrested on February 29 morning by West Bengal Police from a house in Minakhan in North 24 Parganas district in the state where he was hiding.
West Bengal state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday challenged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to contest from the Berhampore Lok Sabha seat in the upcoming polls and defeat him.