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Days after the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal released a purported sting operation video on Sandeshkhali, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday uploaded a fresh purported video in which a woman, who featured in the sting video of May 4, alleges that she was forced to tell lies and that the sting video was highly edited.))..
The TMC, meanwhile, is planning to send a team to meet President Droupadi Murmu to apprise her on how the BJP allegedly made women villagers in Sandeshkhali to lodge false complaints of sexual assaults..
Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district started hitting the headlines from February 7 when villagers, mostly women, came out demanding the arrest of TMC strongman Sheikh Shahjahan and his aides over allegations of sexual assault and land grabbing..
On May 4, however, a purported sting video surfaced in which Gangadhar Koyal, a local BJP leader from Sandeshkhali was seen allegedly saying that there were no rapes and women were paid to lodge false complaints of sexual assault..
Even though Union home minister Amit Shah didnt spare any word on the sting video while attacking the TMC over the Sandeshkhali incident from two back-to-back rallies in Nadia and Birbhum on May 10, the BJP has loaded fresh videos on the social media in which village women could be purportedly seen telling about the atrocities unleashed by arrested TMC strongman Shahjahan..
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