'Political vendetta': TMC's Abhishek Banerjee cries foul after police grilling over scuffle case
'Political vendetta': TMC's Abhishek Banerjee cries foul after police grilling over scuffle case
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'Political vendetta': TMC's Abhishek Banerjee cries foul after police grilling over scuffle case
Edited by: Rohitashwa Ranjan / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Sep 01, 2026, 21:30 IST
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that Bharatiya Janata Party-led West Bengal government was pursuing "political vendetta" against his party after he was questioned for nearly six hours by Kolkata Police over the removal of an unauthorised billboard.The Trinamool Congress MP from Diamond Harbour said that the Suvendu Adhikari-led government was selectively targeting TMC by removing its signboards, freezing party accounts and initiating cases against its leaders and workers. Watch
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"If they think they can silence us through false cases and arrests, they are mistaken," Abhishek Banerjee told reporters as he walked out of Shakespeare Sarani police station after questioning."They can question me but I am not scared, they are," he said, adding that the police action was a bid to weaken TMC.The TMC leader also alleged that several party workers arrested in connection with the incident were subjected to "custodial torture".Join conversation
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"One of our workers, Tarik, was arrested and subjected to custodial torture. He secured bail yesterday, but 12 or 13 others remain in judicial custody," he alleged.This comes days after a confrontation broke out when Kolkata Municipal Corporation officials, accompanied by police, entered the office premises to dismantle the billboard mounted on an iron structure facing the road.
Private security guards, party supporters and some TMC leaders resisted the move, leading to a scuffle with police and civic officials. Police subsequently registered three FIRs and arrested several people.Abhishek, who has been named as an accused in two of the cases, was served a notice to appear before the police and arrived at the station around 12.15 pm, as TMC supporters gathered outside and raised slogans alleging that he was being targeted by the state government.The cases include sections pertaining to obstruction of government officials in the discharge of their duties, unlawful assembly, assault and harassment of women police personnel.
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Rohitashwa Ranjan is a digital journalist with The Times of India, where he decodes Indian politics as a carefully staged production with scripts, subtext and everything behind. His stories track elections, party dynamics and the things that often are buried beneath the headlines. When not parsing vote shares or alliances, he is usually reading between the lines, where the real story tends to reside.
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