Sandeshkhali incident: 'Sting ops video exposes BJP conspiracy'

Suvendu Adhikari accused of orchestrating false rape allegetions’

- PRADIP CHATTERJEE

A video that went viral on social media where BJP’s Sandeshkhali II mandal president Gangadhar Koyal was seen claiming that the entire Sandeshkhali incident was a conspiracy hatched by BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari and not a single incident of rape had taken place there.

A few women in Sandeshkhali, including BJP’s Basirhat Lok Sabha candidate Rekha Patra, who had spearheaded the agitation were all given Rs 2,000 each by Adhikari for making false statements, Koyal claimed.

Millennium Post, however, has not verified the authenticity of the video. The incident has created a sensation ahead of the third phase election scheduled on May 7. In the purported video, Koyal was heard saying that Adhikari, ‘...is behind the whole conspiracy”.

Koyal alleged that Adhikari had asked him and other BJP leaders of the area to “instigate three-four local women to level allegations of rape against three Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders, including Shajahan Sheikh”.

Opposition leader Adhikari in his reaction to the viral video, from Nadia, alleged that it was scripted by the TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, his consultancy agency and a journalist.