File Photograph: Former Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee
Former West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday led a protest in opposition to the ruling BJP within the State over alleged assaults on TMC leaders and employees, significantly on her nephew and the social gathering’s nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee.
Returning to road protests after the Trinamool Congress witnessed an enormous defeat within the Meeting elections held in April, Banerjee staged a sit-in demonstration in Kolkata. The protest was organised in response to alleged assaults on social gathering leaders, employees, and vandalisation of social gathering workplaces throughout the State.
“We’ll proceed to combat in opposition to the BJP. I’ll combat or die,” she stated on the dharna web site at Esplanade’s Y-channel in central Kolkata. The Trinamool Congress’s enchantment to carry the protest on the adjoining Rani Rashmoni Highway was turned down by the Kolkata Police.
“We weren’t given permission to arrange a stage or use microphones,” Banerjee stated, whereas addressing the group utilizing a megaphone.
“We’ll transfer courtroom if different events are allowed to carry political programmes on the venue the place we have been denied permission to protest, or if they’re allowed to carry conferences with microphones. Regulation can’t be imposed with discrimination,” she stated.
The Trinamool chief lashed out on the State’s police forces for allegedly working on the behest of the BJP and serving to the saffron social gathering “break” the TMC by threatening the employees. “Some persons are betraying us to interrupt the Trinamool Congress,” she stated.
“Very quickly, all anti-BJP events will meet in Delhi. Anticipate a couple of days and we are going to quickly announce our country-wide plan of action,” Banerjee added, referring to the scheduled INDIA bloc assembly subsequent week.
Notably, Abhishek Banerjee was attacked by a mob in Sonarpur in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district final Saturday whereas he was on his method to meet members of the family of a Trinamool Congress employee who was killed in alleged post-poll violence. Stones, eggs, and footwear have been hurled at him as he made his manner on a motorcycle in a slim method highway to the social gathering employee’s dwelling.
After assembly the members of the family of the deceased TMC employee, Abhishek pointed to the absence of the police throughout the incident and alleged that it was a “BJP-sponsored protest”.
5 individuals have been arrested on Sunday in reference to the assault. Investigators recognized the accused after analyzing video footage of the incident.
Printed on June 2, 2026
