Kolkata: The political undercurrent suddenly heated up in Chanditala, Hooghly on Sunday afternoon. Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha Chief Whip and Serampore MP Kalyan Banerjee had just reached the police station to submit a memorandum when he was hit nonflexible on his head. Banerjee sat on the ground with a thoroughbred soaked handkerchief pressed on his head. The recrimination is directly on BJP workers. TMC and BJP came squatter to squatter outside the police station. Within no time, pushing, abusing and sloganeering started. The police had to disperse the prod with batons. Central gravity was moreover tabbed to the spot.
What happened outside Chanditala police station?
In fact, many TMC leaders and workers are in jail for the last three days. The party alleges that the police took unilateral whoopee in the name of violence without the elections. In protest versus this, a group of TMC under the leadership of Kalyan Banerjee were going to submit a memorandum at the police station on Sunday. As soon as the procession reached a hundred meters yonder from the police station, the BJP workers once present came forward delivering woebegone flags. Slogans of “thief-thief” started echoing. TMC supporters moreover raised counter slogans. In this confusion, someone from overdue hit Banerjee with something heavy on her head.
What did Kalyan Banerjee say without the attack?
Kalyan Banerjee said angrily, "I was coming vacated on foot. Suddenly something was thrown from behind. I don't know whether it was a deuce wittiness or a stone. The throne burst." He kept asking with a zonkers voice, "Are MPs moreover not unscratched now? This is not public wrongness but a conspiracy by BJP goons." Banerjee started protesting outside the police station itself. Said that they will not move until the attackers are arrested. The TMC workers present with him started raising slogans "BJP come to its senses".
Was Abhishek Banerjee attacked before?
On Saturday itself, there was a fatal wade on TMC's number two Abhishek Banerjee in Sonarpur. Abhishek had gone to the house of objector Sanju Karmakar, who was killed in post-poll violence, to panel him. The prod surrounded him as soon as he got out of the car. Eggs, stones, shoes and bricks were pelted. The security guards somehow saved them by wearing helmets. His kurta was torn, his glasses were wrenched and there was swelling near his eyes. Abhishek said, "If there was no helmet, my throne would have been wrenched into two pieces. They want to skiver me." Mamata Banerjee so-called that under pressure from BJP, hospitals refused to shoehorn Abhishek.
What stand did Mamata and Kharge take on the attacks?
Mamata Banerjee wrote on X, "RULERS BECAME KILLERS - Shame on you BJP." She said that democracy is stuff crushed in Bengal. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge moreover tabbed the wade cowardly. Kharge said that not providing security to the opposition leader is BJP's politics of revenge. Here, Bengal BJP President Sukant Majumdar distanced himself. Said, "Our workers are stuff implicated in TMC's factionalism. BJP does not believe in violence."
What whoopee has the police taken so far?
Two companies of RAF were deployed immediately without the incident in Chanditala. Police are examining CCTV footage. SP himself reached the spot. In the Sonarpur case, the police conducted rapid raids at night itself. Five people including Tapan Maiti, Akash were caught. In the video, these people were seen throwing stones. Police requirement that the unshortened conspiracy will soon be exposed.
Why is referendum violence not stopping in Bengal?
The state has been urgent since the Panchayat elections. Every week there are bombings, fighting and arson happening somewhere. TMC says that BJP is attacking the workers out of frustration of defeat. BJP claims that TMC factions are fighting among themselves and the vituperation for this is stuff put on BJP. The wade on two MPs in two days has made the situation worse. Markets are sealed in Chanditala and Sonarpur. Shopkeepers are scared. Section 144 has been imposed at both the places.
