Omkar Dattatray
This time Sandeshkhali has become a centre of political activity and this place is in the news not for any good thing but for the atrocities and rape on women by the TMC leader Shahjahan Shiekh who is called the Bahubali and Betaj Badsha of Sandeshkhali but thank God the political don has been arrested after the intervention of Bengal High Court and the supreme Court and with much reluctance the TMC government has finally arrested Sheikh and with much indifference he has been handed over to the CBI.A big political storm has come to Sandeshkhali and it may spread to other states as well and it may turn the tide in favor of the BJP .In fact the political message of Sandeshkhali will affect the election results and BJP will be a gainer this time and thus the poll outcome will be changed because of the political storm of Sandeshkhali and the BJP is trying its best to take political and electoral dividends from the happenings of the Sandeshkhali .It is rightly hoped that the poll arithmetic at the national level will be affected and changed because of the unfortunate and shameful happenings of Sandeshkhali and there are no two opinions about it.PM Modi said that storm of Sandeshkhali will rage across Bengal and will have political ramifications beyond west Bengal and will find echo in the upcoming general elections. .Modi says women voters will come out in large numbers to’ destroy the mafia rule’ by the Trinamool congress government that is bent on protecting extortionists and those committing crimes. Accusing the TMC government of using all its might to shield those accused of the Sandeshkhali violence ,prime minister Naredra Modi said that the ”storm of Sandeshklali ‘will rage across West Bengal and bring an end to the Trinamool regime .”The anger of women will not be limited to Sandeshkhali alone .The anger of women will not be limited to Sandeshkhali alone. The storm of Sandeshkhali will rage across Bengal .I can see that the women of Bengal have come out to destroy the mafia rule of West Bengal ,”the prime minister said addressing the BJP’s Nari Shakti Vandana rally at Barasat in North 24 Pragana district .Modi said that the TMC had committed a sin at Sandeshkhali and all the people were hanging their heads in shame over the development. Addressing his third political rally in West Bengal in a span of a week .Modi highlighted the efforts of the Trinamool congress government to shield the accused in Sandeshkhali violence but added that it had to suffer setbacks at the High Court and supreme Court .The PM said that the TMC government had reposed their faith in their leaders who committed atrocities on women .He accused the TMC government of being anti women and said that only BJP can give voice to the women of the state .Modi added ,”The TMC government which works under the influence of extortionists and those believing in appeasement politics cannot provide security to women .On the other hand BJP government at the centre had brought provision of death penalty for crimes like rape .The public meeting at Basatar was organized by the BJP to highlight the Sandeshkhali issue and many women had come to meet the PM Modi .Sources in the BJP said that the victims of the violence at Sandeshkhali shared their ordeal with Mr Modi .Sandeshkhali ,where allegations of land grab and sexual assault have triggered an outrage has emerged as a poll plank for the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. ”We have created a helpline so that our sisters can easily complain in times of crisis .However the TMC government is not allowing this system to be implemented here .Such an anti women government can never do any good to women. ”Sandeshkhali remained the focal point of PM Narendra Modi’s Bengal campaign at his third rally in the state in five days .Modi said atrocities on women in the restive North 24 Parganas pocket that arrested Trinamool strongman Sheikh Shahjahan used to lord over reflected the governing party’s alleged apathy towards them .As in his previous campaign stops ,Sandeshkhali resonated almost throughout Modi’s 38-minute speech in Barasat ,around 82 km from the states latest political flashpoint .It follows that the message coming out from Sandeshkhali will definitely impact and change the political narrative in the country and it will impact the 2024 Lok Sabha mandate .Thus the fallout of the Sandeshkhali will really impact the poll outcome in 2024 general elections as the winds of change will brew in the country and affect the political landscape of the country in 2024 and this is the foregone conclusion .The people of the country will not tolerate the atrocities and sexual assaults on the women and they will definitely rise against the TMC government and its misrule and gross injustice with the womenfolk and thus will raise against the TMC misrule and it will find the expression on the voting turf of the general elections as the people will vote against TMC and its misrule .In fact the anti TMC wave will emerge and the BJP will get its benefit and it will come victorious at the end of the day when people will vote in favor of the BJP in large numbers .Since half of the population comprises of the womenfolk and therefore they will definitely raise its voice against TMC and it will be reflected in changing the voting pattern in favor of the BJP and this is writing on the wall as the women by and large will vote in favor of the BJP and will oust the Mamata government from the power to end the misrule and the nexus of the TMC and mafia.Thus TMC government will be defeated in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections .The powerful protest against years of harassment ,land grab and oppression at the hands of local TMC leaders has stirred a national political debate .On February 22,,a palpable tension filled the air in Sandeshkhali .For the past two weeks the picturesque little Island at the mouth of the sunderbans in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district has been in the midst of a sociopolitical upheaval unseen in the state in the last 50 years .Alleging years of oppression ,sexual offences and harassment ,the women of Sandeshkhali turned against local representatives of the ruling TMC ,Sheikh Shahjahan and his henchmen .Most reluctantly on February 29,,Shahjahan was arrested and Sandeshkhali broke into celebration .In brief the women of the country will raise against the TMC government and oust TMC government from power and it will also find an echo in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as the women of the country will teach TMC a lesson in both West Bengal and in fact in the whole country.
(The author is a columnist, social and KP activist).
