Barasat (West Bengal), Mar 6 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday interacted with some "tortured" women from Sandeshkhali and assured them to redress their grievances, party sources said.
Lok Sabha member and BJP's women wing leader Locket Chatterjee was asked by the party to bring some women, who came to the Barasat Kachari ground from Sandeshkhali to hear Modi at a rally. The Women later interacted with the Prime Minister in a room.
One of the women told a private TV channel that 'Modi listened to them very patiently and enquired about who are those involved in the attacks on them at Sandeshkhali.'
She said one of the assistants took note of their version as they demanded deployment of Central Armed Police Force as they have lost faith with the state police.
The women quoting the PM as saying that Modi told them that 'they have already learnt to defend themselves.'
"Yes we have learnt by now to defend ourselves after being cornered following non-cooperation of the state police," the woman, whose identity was not divulged, said.
"We told Modi about our villages, names and addresses and briefed him with an appeal to save us,: the women said.
Modi was here to address a rally of Nari Shakti Abhiyan in which, among the massive gathering, nearly 85 percent were women.
The BJP's women wing had organised the rally and arranged to bring many women from Sandeshkhali in buses.
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