People's Democracy

Mamata’s Men Beat Up Woman 

Television Journalist In Kolkata

IN a dastardly incident of violent behaviour, goons belonging to the Trinamul Congress pounced upon a woman journalist of the Bengali Aakash Bangla channel in the afternoon of December 22 in front of the Writers’ Buildings. 

They pushed her to the ground even as she was conducting an interview with a Trinamul Congress functionary and punched, kicked and pummelled her before people of the area walking along the boulevard opposite the building rushed in and rescued her. 

She had to be removed to hospital with concussion injuries.  As they beat her up, she was called filthy names and accused of being in the ‘pay of a channel which is a mouthpiece of the CPI(M).’

Condemning the incident, state secretary of the CPI(M) Anil Biswas said that the attack proved how isolated the Trinamul Congress was becoming from the masses since they were resorting to fascistic tactics of muzzling the media. 

Asked to comment on the meandering visit that Trinamul Congress chieftain, Mamata Banerjee did around the Writers’ Buildings and around the police HQ at Lalbazar just before the incident had occurred, Biswas said that her behaviour was becoming more and more erratic as time went by.

Biswas also pointed out that violent attacks were a part of the Trinamul Congress’ culture. Mamata Banerjee was earlier involved in biting the arm of a police officer in Writers’ Buildings, grappling with the police and blackening their faces in another incident near the Assembly house, and sitting down on the chair of a thana officer-in-charge in the latter’s absence after muscling her way in accompanied by her henchmen. (INN)