In yet another egg attack in West Bengal, stones and eggs were thrown at the car of MLA from Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool faction, Kunal Ghosh, on Saturday by a mob in Hooghly.
Earlier reporting noted: TMC MLA Kunal Ghosh’s car allegedly attacked by BJP workers with ‘eggs and bricks’ on his way to Mamata’s rally Trinamool Congress MLA Kunal Ghosh’s car was attacked at Uttarpara in Hooghly district on Saturday while he was on his way to attend a rally of former chief minister Mamata Banerjee at Serampore in the same district. Ghosh came under attack while he was on his way to attend a rally by party chief Mamata Banerjee. In a video of the incident, an angry mob can be seen stopping the MLA’s car and throwing eggs at it. The video also shows the rear windshield of the MLA’s car shattered. Kunal Ghosh was forced to return to Kolkata after his vehicle was damaged. They attacked my car with stones and eggs and blocked the road. No police personnel were present there. I am now returning to Kolkata and will go straight to Lal Bazaar or Bhawani Bhawan to lodge a complaint. Rear windshield of Kunal Ghosh’s car was smashed The car’s rear windshield was broken in the attack, he alleged. Reacting to the attack, Ghosh’s boss and Mamata Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee blamed the BJP and alleged that the ruling party was trying to stop people from coming for her rally. “Police are also stopping our people from reaching the meeting in Srirampur. Such things don’t even happen in African countries,” she alleged. This is the recent in the spate egg attacks on the Trinamool leaders since the party’s defeat in the May Bengal elections. A mob, armed with lathis, rods, and carrying black posters, was shouting slogans. A second mob blocked the road. They hurled eggs and bricks and broke both the windshields. Glass shards fell all over me. They want us to believe that there was no intelligence input.
I will return to Kolkata and go straight to Bhabani Bhavan (state police headquarters) so that the police top brass can see what has happened.
The video shows Kunal Ghosh sitting in the car while the mob bangs on it, throws eggs and stones, and raises “Kunal Ghosh go back” slogans. Reacting to the incident, Ghosh said, “This is jungle raj. TMC leaders claimed that the incident was the “handiwork of the BJP”. Party leader Asit Majumdar alleged that it was a “pre-planned attack by the BJP, not a protest by common people”. Uttarpara BJP MLA Dipanjan Chakraborty described the incident as a “spontaneous response from the public”. the ruling party has dubbed it public anger directed at the “corrupt” Trinamool leaders While the Trinamool has blamed the BJP for unleashing egg attacks on it leaders. I couldn’t go ahead any further,” he said. I am lucky that the driver wasn’t injured, else we would have got stranded there,” Ghosh is also the party spokesperson, told the media.
Earlier this month, MP Mahua Moitra also faced an egg-pelting protest by alleged BJP workers while leaving a political meeting in Tehatta, Nadia district. The Calcutta High Court had stepped into multiple related incidents previously asking the state government to report on actions taken against egg attacks. Earlier reporting noted: “BJP goons attacked my car while I was on my way to attend Banerjee’s rally. Earlier reporting noted: “Not a single policeman was there.
