Kolkata, Aug 3 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists of ransacking his party office on Camac Street in central Kolkata.
He released a video on his X handle, alleging the ransacking of his party office and accusing the BJP of being the perpetrator.
Banerjee claimed the ransacking took place at around 4 a.m. on Thursday and also accused the perpetrators of assaulting the staff of the office.
He has demanded that the CCTV footage of the incident be made public and the culprits be arrested.
“This is what the BJP has done to my party office in the early hours of this morning. Will the Governor of West Bengal act? Will the Union Home Minister act? Will the PMO act? Or will they continue to look the other way?” Banerjee wrote on X in the morning.
He has also claimed that it was high time the judiciary, particularly the Calcutta High Court, took serious note of what was happening and acted to uphold the rule of law in West Bengal.
In his social media message, he launched a scathing attack against Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari over the event.
“And one simple question for Suvendu Adhikari: why are you so scared of the Trinamool Congress and of me that you have to resort to this kind of intimidation? If this is how the Opposition is to be treated in West Bengal, through violence, vandalism and intimidation, then the Chief Minister have no moral authority to remain in office. He must resign,” Banerjee said in his social media post.
He also said that besides those committing such vandalism, those remaining silent in the matter should also be condemned.
“This is not democracy. This is political thuggery. Shame on those responsible. And shame on those who choose to remain silent. Every act like this will be remembered. Every attack, every act of intimidation, every abuse of power. Nothing will be forgotten,” the Diamond Harbour MP said.
There has been a lot of controversy over Abhishek Banerjee’s Camac Street party office in the last few days after FIRs were registered over a row that erupted during the removal of an illegal billboard of the Trinamool Congress from the roof of the office building last week.
Banerjee, his personal assistant, Sumit Roy, and the party’s Rajya Sabha member, Derek O’Brien, have already been questioned by the Kolkata Police in the matter in the last couple of days.
–IANS
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