New Delhi, Feb. 29 -- Launching a scathing attack on the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government over the arrest of of absconding strongman and Sandeshkhali accused Sheikh Shahjahan, Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Thursday said that he had never seen such a 'ruthless' Chief Minister like Mamata Banerjee and alleged that accused Shahjahan was safeguarded by the state government.

"I have never seen such a ruthless CM like Mamata Banerjee. A man who is a rapist, a man who exploited women, was safeguarded by the TMC government just to secure minority votes," Singh said while speaking to ANI.

Close to two months after he was reported untraceable in the wake of the attack on an ED team, which was on its way to raid his residence in the North 24 ...