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Kolkata: A fresh political spat broke out between the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal over the controversy kicked off by claims of widespread sexual abuse allegedly by TMC functionaries in Sandeshkhali...
On Saturday, an unverified sting video of the BJPs mandal president of Sandeshkhali Block-1 surfaced in which he can be heard claiming BJP leaders including MLA Suvendu Adhikari fabricated charges and paid to get fake testimonies of villagers to corner the ruling TMC.ThePrint was not able to independently verify the authenticity of the video...
TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee at a press conference in Kolkata said he, too, did not know the origin of the video and received it on his phone in the morning hoping it was shot by an independent journalist...
With Sandeshkhali finding mention in Prime Minister Narendra Modis election speeches with the allegation that Hindu and Dalit women are not safe in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also cited the sting video to allege that the BJP scripted the narrative to malign the states image...
TMC must have threatened him (BJP functionary seen in video) to speak out against the BJP, she said.. Patras name also featured in the unverified video with the BJP functionary claiming that she was among those paid Rs 2,000 to accuse TMC functionaries of sexual abuse...
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