Amit Shah on Friday spoke about alleged atrocities on women in Sandeshkhali, but refrained from referring to a couple of videos that gave the Trinamool Congress a handle to raise questions about the veracity of rape complaints that scores on the island had lodged against the leaders of the party.

"Mamata Banerjee should be ashamed of being a woman chief minister as her leaders tortured Sandeskhali women.... I want to say the mothers and sisters of Bengal should not worry as the CBI is probing the case. The BJP will ensure stringent action against all accused persons," the Union home minister said at an election rally in Nadia's Krishnaganj.

His comments on Sandeshkhali at another rally in Rampurhat, Birbhum district, were similar as he flagged the complaints of sexual abuse and rape against Trinamool leaders and then went on to attack the ruling party over alleged corruption in its regime.

"The Congress and Mamata Banerjee's party are involved in corruption worth Rs 12 lakh crore, and I have come to ensure that each of those involved in corruption will be put behind bars. They were involved in corruption in PDS, teachers' recruitment, recruitment in civic bodies, coal, and cow smuggling.... Mamata Banerjee, your government is No 1 in corruption across the country," added the BJP leader.

He spent about one-third of his 18-minute speech in Birbhum accusing Trinamool of involving in illegal sand and stone mining before urging the voters to elect the BJP nominee to put an end to the corruption. But he maintained total silence on the two purported videos, which have added a new dimension to the Sandeshkhali saga.

The first video showed Sandeshkhali BJP leader Gangadhar Kayal claiming that women were paid Rs 2,000 to lodge complaints of sexual abuse. The second video showed Rekha Patra, the face of the protest and the BJP's Basirhat candidate, questioning the credibility of a few alleged victims, who met the President of India.

As the BJP's state leaders have been questioning the veracity of the videos and spun multiple theories before calling them politically motivated, Shah's silence on them raised several questions within and outside the saffron ecosystem.

"We expected him to attack the TMC for creating fake videos, but he didn't utter a word.... I am a bit confused about the party's strategy on the purported videos," said a source.

Shah's silence, multiple sources said, can be linked to this confusion on how to go about handling Sandeshkhali and the purported videos in the remaining four phases of elections.