'I saw the threat call': Mamata claims police forced doctors to release Abhishek

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• Eggs, stones, chappals: Abhishek Banerjee discharged from ITU due to threat from police, alleges Mamata Oppn members don’t even have right to get treatment: Mamata Poll What should be prioritized in Bengal politics?
• Ensuring safety for all politicians Developing infrastructure in all areas Restoration of public trust in politics Addressing past injustices KOLKATA: Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, on his first public foray outside Kalighat after the party’s ouster from office, was on Saturday assaulted and abused by a crowd of protesters in Sonarpur as he tried to reach the home of a Trinamool worker allegedly killed in post-poll violence.As he hopped on a motorbike and then tried to walk a 600metre muddy stretch leading to the home of Sanju Karmakar under ward 9 of Sonarpur Rajpur municipality, the protesters chased him shouting ‘chor, chor’, pelted him with eggs, stones and chappals, tore his shirt, punched him in the chest, slapped him and broke his spectacles while continuously screaming abuses.Abhishek had to wear a helmet to escape further injury.The 10-minute assault continued in the absence of police even as a handful of party workers threw a ring around him and managed to get him to Karmakar’s home.
• He had to stay there for more than an hour as the angry crowd camped outside, threatening to break down the door.
• He was finally escorted out by central force personnel and local cops.“It was a planned attack by BJP workers.
• They wanted to kill me.