Mamata-Trinamool leaders assaulted; party accuses BJP of attack
BJP leader says the attack was a reaction by the common people and not their party workers
Former Trinamool Congress leader Humayun Kabir was brutally assaulted in Kolkata's Mukundapur on Tuesday night, according to the party. Graphic photos shared by Trinamool show Kabir with injuries and blood on him. The party claimed that its women workers were also manhandled and assaulted by BJP workers during the incident, with Upasana Chowdhury, IT Cell head, among those affected.
Her clothes were torn, her car was vandalised, and her home was attacked. Top Trinamool leaders, including Abhishek Banerjee, Sagarika Ghose, Dola Sen, Derek O'Brien, and Samirul Islam, condemned the attack and questioned the lack of police action. Banerjee wrote on social media that political differences cannot become a license for political violence and demanded accountability for those responsible.
The scuffle between the two parties and their workers began over the alleged capture of a party office, with slogans, counter slogans, and eggs thrown. A delegation of Trinamool leaders was en route to the East Jadavpur Police Station to file a complaint when they were attacked. BJP MLA Sarbari Mukherjee suggested that the Trinamool was protecting miscreants and that the common people would retaliate.
West Bengal Congress also condemned the attack, calling it an attempt to establish one-party rule in Bengal and expressing disapproval of the suppression of opposition voices.
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