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“They arrested a journalist only for carrying out his duties…do you think TMC would have done that if they had nothing to hide,” says BJP’s Charu Pragya. Sandeshkhali is to Mamata Banerjee what Marichjhapi was to Jyoti Basu. Marichjhapi was a genocide perpetrated by the first CPIM-led Left Front government on hapless Dalit refugees from East Bengal in 1979. Jyoti Basu’s government and his police used economic blockade, cut off lifelines, unleashed Muslim gangsters, burnt huts, and shot at refugees, compelling them to jump to death in the shark-infested estuary.