West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas and Saayoni Ghosh, the TMC’s candidate from Jadavpur Constituency, wave to the general public throughout a marketing campaign rally in Kolkata forward of the Lok Sabha polls. File
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The Trinamool Congress could have fielded actor-politician Saayoni Ghosh from the Jadavpur Lok Sabha phase, a celebration stronghold on the southern fringes of Kolkata, however that hasn’t granted her immunity to battling voters’ perceptions on certainly one of West Bengal’s most urgent points within the parliamentary polls — Sandeshkhali.
Even because the 31-year-old youth chief made no makes an attempt to cover her preliminary euphoria over her social gathering’s name to award her a ticket from the distinguished seat, she maintained that it “felt like a homecoming”. Ms. Ghosh additionally asserted that the Sandeshkhali harm was “well controlled”.
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“One Sandeshkhali won’t turn around women’s perception of Mamata Banerjee in this state,” Saayoni instructed PTI in an interview, “The very fact that she is the country’s only woman CM itself goes to show how Bengal reposes faith in a woman to run a government.”
Ms. Gosh’s confidence appeared to stem from her perception that Ms. Banerjee “handled Sandeshkhali incredibly”, and will comprise the state of affairs effectively in time earlier than the BJP might “turn a controversy into a conspiracy and convert that into a Nandigram or a Singur by blowing it out of proportions”.
“The CM took all necessary and decisive actions. She set up grievance redress camps, sent political delegations to placate people’s anger, started the process of returning land parcels via DMs and block offices and made all arrests,” she listed.
She praised the police for arresting TMC chief and Sandeshkhali prime accused Shahjahan Sheikh. “The Bengal police delivered where the ED and the CBI failed. Shahjahan’s arrest could have happened sooner if there hadn’t been a judgment anomaly in the High Court. The central agencies never brought that up. So, what stopped them from arresting him?” she argued.
“What happened in Sandeshkhali is very unfortunate. I am not trying to defend it in any way. But it is an isolated development and the impact is well contained,” Saayoni maintained.