A day after Trinamool leader Abhishek Banerjee was attacked in Sonapur in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas, another party MP, Kalyan Banerjee, was allegedly harassed outside a police station in Hooghly district on Sunday.
A video of the incident showed Kalyan Banerjee walking when a large crowd could be heard chanting “Kur, kur, kur” (thief, thief, thief). As Banerjee walked towards them, security personnel were seen trying to control the crowd, when the TMC MP held his head with his right hand and slid to the ground with his mobile phone in his left hand.
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The security personnel were then seen controlling the crowd, while others helped Banerjee get up from the ground.
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He continues to hold his head still as he rises, walking about three to four steps with security personnel and supporters surrounding him, when he collapses again on the ground.
Banerjee appears to be in pain as his supporters hold him and attend to him amidst a crowd of slogans and police forces.
While Kalyan Banerjee claimed that he sustained head injuries, there is no evidence of any actual attack on him. Surrounded by the crowd, he suddenly puts his hand on his head and lies on the ground.
The TMC member claimed that he was hit on the head during the protest and was injured. He was reportedly seen holding a piece of cloth to the back of his head. “All this happened in front of the police. I was hit on the head and I was bleeding,” PTI quoted him as telling reporters. He blamed BJP supporters for the incident.
A tense situation erupted outside Chanditala police station during Kalyan Banerjee’s visit, as a group of people waved black flags at him and called the TMC leader and the other party delegation “thieves”.
The alleged attack on Abhishek Banerjee
On Saturday, Abhishek Banerjee was allegedly harassed by locals when he visited Sonapur to meet families of victims of post-poll violence.
Former West Bengal chief minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee had claimed that her nephew Abhishek Banerjee “would have died” in Saturday’s attack “if it were not for his helmet”. She also claimed he had “blood clots around his chest.”
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Following the alleged attack, the TMC’s national secretary-general was transferred to a private hospital because he complained of pain in his neck and back. A bed was allocated for him in the intensive treatment unit, and the authorities said that the injuries he sustained were superficial and did not require hospitalization.
“As per preliminary test reports, the injuries sustained by Banerjee are superficial in nature. He does not require hospitalization. However, our doctors are trying to closely evaluate the injuries and necessary tests will be conducted. We will issue a medical bulletin for the patient, if necessary,” news agency PTI quoted a senior hospital official as saying.
The hospital also stated that Abhishek did not show any “serious physical signs of infection.”
