Overview
- Video and multiple reports show Ghosh’s car was surrounded and pelted with eggs, stones and sticks in Uttarpara while he travelled to a Serampore rally on Saturday, and the vehicle’s rear windshield was smashed.
- Ghosh alleges a second, more violent episode on Sunday in Kolkata where motorcycle-borne assailants smashed a windshield with hammers, brandished firearms and tried to drag him out, after which he took refuge in Narkeldanga police station and filed a complaint.
- Authorities have not publicly attributed responsibility for either episode and police statements on the events remain limited while investigations appear to be pending.
- TMC leaders blamed the BJP for the attacks and urged the governor to intervene, while BJP figures denied involvement and described the incidents as either spontaneous public responses or internal TMC disputes.
- The episodes follow the Calcutta High Court’s conditional permission for Mamata Banerjee’s Serampore meeting and recent arrests of two TMC volunteers, underscoring growing disputes over policing, access to political rallies and post‑election polarization in West Bengal.