Kolkata: Five attackers have been held after scores of people hurled stones, eggs and abuses at the TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee during his visit to Sonarpur in South 24 Parganas district, police informed on Sunday.
The arrests were made with the help of video footage during the incident, according to a senior police officer.
He escaped the sight with a helmet and aides that helped him during the attack on Saturday in Sonarpur town of South Praganas district in West Bengal.
After the attack he claimed that BJP activists was behind this attack as they were trying top kill him while raising chants of “thief, thief”. He went to visit victims of post-poll violence and the situation quickly went out of control. Some members of the crowd attempted to physically attack Banerjee by raining blows and kicks on him, prompting swift intervention by security personnel.
An officer said that the police have registered a case in the matter suo moto, since neither Banerjee nor the TMC lodged a formal complaint till Sunday.
The attackers will be produced before a court in Baruipur, police said. Later he was admitted in the hospital from which following primary medical attention he was discharged.
Referring to the incident, BJP West Bengal President Samik Bhattacharya said such incidents are not desirable in a healthy and normal society, while insisting that the saffron party was not at all involved. He said” “The BJP is not involved in such activities. But what happened could be the outcome of the anger of locals who were tortured over the years.”
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