Kolkata, Sep 16 (IANS) Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha member from Krishnanagar, Mahua Moitra, alleged that BJP activists hurled eggs at her vehicle on Wednesday while she was leaving a party meeting in Tehatta in West Bengal’s Nadia district.
Moitra shared videos of the incident on social media and claimed that BJP office-bearers surrounded the venue and targeted her convoy as she departed after the meeting.
Referring to a recent observation by Supreme Court judge Justice Dipankar Datta that politicians should not be overly concerned about egg attacks when freedom fighters had faced bullets, she said she had confronted the situation in the same spirit.
Moitra said that on Wednesday she was officially both an MP in independent India and also a freedom fighter. “BJP office bearers (NOT public) surrounded my meeting and pelted eggs as I left. Thank you, MiLord, for upholding our Constitutional protections,” the Krishnanagar MP said.
“Big shout out to Hon’ble Justice Dipankar Datta! MiLord – I came to my constituency for a meeting, informing West Bengal Police and the BJP workers with their help, pelted eggs on me. True to your advice, I faced them as a freedom fighter faced bullets,” she added.
She also criticized the officer-in-charge of Tehatta Police Station for allegedly claiming that the Krishnagar Lok Sabha member attended the meeting at Tehatta without informing him.
“The Tehatta IC, Supriya Ranjan Maji, said on camera that nobody informed him about her visit. Whereas, the fact is that the district police superintendent of Nadia issued a letter, cc to him, about my Tehatta visit. Does Mr Maji also have the BJP disease of short-term memory loss? Disgraceful,” Moitra added.
However, the BJP legislator from Tehatta, Subrata Kobiraj, denied the involvement of his party workers behind the incident and claimed the egg attack was a fallout of factionalism within Trinamool Congress in Nadia district.
“This was the result of factional conflict within Trinamool Congress. Here, one group is backing Moitra, while another is against her. Trinamool Congress in Nadia is now divided into two groups, and an anti-Moitra group attacked her. BJP had nothing to do with it,” said Kobiraj.
–IANS
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