Assault on road, CID at door: Abhishek Banerjee faces twin blows

KOLKATA: Former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's nephew and Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee faced a bruising time of governmental turbulence Saturday, coming nether onslaught from protesters successful Sonarpur connected Kolkata's confederate borderline and receiving a CID summons successful a fake-signature probe arsenic unit mounted connected him aft TMC's electoral defeat.Abhishek Banerjee, 38, was chased, abused and assaulted by a assemblage portion trying to scope the location of a TMC idiosyncratic killed successful post-poll unit successful Sonarpur. Protesters shouted "chor, chor", hurled eggs, stones and slippers, tore his shirt, punched and slapped him, and broke his spectacles during a 10-minute attack.Forced to deterioration a helmet for protection, Banerjee was escorted by enactment workers done a 600m muddy agelong to scope Sanju Karmakar's house.

He remained wrong for much than an hr arsenic protesters camped outside. Security forces aboriginal escorted him out.Banerjee was admitted to a infirmary successful southbound Kolkata with bruises and thorax injuries, but shifted to his location precocious astatine nighttime "as infirmary authorities said they are nether threat", Mamata Banerjee said, portion announcing she and Trinamool workers volition clasp thoroughfare protests Sunday."It was a planned onslaught by BJP workers. Everyone knew I was coming.

," Abhishek Banerjee said.State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya condemned the unit but said nationalist choler against TMC had been gathering for years.Hours earlier, Bengal CID served Banerjee a announcement directing him to look astatine its office Monday successful transportation with a fake-signature contention involving a TMC solution proposing Sovandeb Chattopadhyay's sanction arsenic person of absorption successful assembly.Accepting the notice, Banerjee said helium would consult his ineligible team. He called the probe "political vendetta and maltreatment of power".