Eggs, shoes hurled at TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee during visit to post-poll violence victims’ families in Bengal

TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was roughed up on Saturday (May 30, 2026), allegedly by locals, when he visited West Bengal’s Sonarpur area to meet families of post-poll violence victims, police said.

Stones, shoes and eggs were hurled at the TMC MP by unidentified people who even attempted to rain blows and kicks on him, while they shouted ‘thief’ slogans at Mr. Banerjee.

He was seen being escorted out of the area with a police helmet on and his shirt tattered.

“Look what they have done to me. This was pre-planned. There is no police in the area. They want to kill me. I will not leave this place till the local police send their force and offer protection to the victims’ families,” Mr. Banerjee said while meeting the family of a deceased post-poll violence victim.

Bengal CID serves summons to Abhishek in ‘fake signature’ probe

Earlier in the day, the West Bengal CID served a notice to Mr. Banerjee, asking him to appear before it in connection with a probe into the alleged use of forged signatures of party legislators in a communication submitted to the Assembly Secretariat endorsing Shobhandeb Chattopadhyay as the Leader of the Opposition.

The notice — described by CID sources as a summons directing him to appear for questioning at the agency’s Bhabani Bhavan headquarters at noon on Monday (June 1, 2026) — was served personally to Mr. Banerjee at his Kalighat Road residence.

The officers delivered the notice to the TMC MP, who acknowledged its receipt before the CID team finally left at around 2.50 p.m.

With PTI inputs