West Bengal BJP leader and one of the women who brought out the Sandeshkhali incident, Syria Parveen, on Thursday resigned from the party and joined the Trinamool Congress, accusing the saffron party of "scripting the entire incident".
In a press conference, the former BJP leader also accused the saffron party of giving money to its Basirhat Lok Sabha candidate Rekha Patra. The grave accusations by Parveen came just days ahead of voting in Basirhat.
"In Sandeshkhali and Basirhat, I tried to be with women who had alleged molestation and harassment. I was fighting for the truth. Later I saw that this was only a story, a script. Mobile, media and money were used in this. And they (BJP leaders) gave instructions through this," Parveen said while speaking to the media.
"The BJP fights against the TMC. When I got to know that TMC people and leaders are fair, and they did not make any mistakes, then I decided that I would not go ahead with the fake things," she said.
Parveen also claimed to have "many pieces of evidence" to prove that BJP leaders "scripted" the Sandeshkali incident.
In her press conference on Thursday, Parveen also accused the BJP leaders of using "sim cards and phones" to give instructions to manipulate the women of Sandeshkhali.
Earlier this year, Sandeshkhali made headlines after several women held massive protests against former Trinamool Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh and his aides, accusing them of land grab and sexual harassment. He was later arrested by the state police in connection with another case.
The Basirhat Lok Sabha seat is pitted in a bilateral fight between TMC's Haji Nurul Islam and BJP's Rekha Patra.
