Mahua Moitra becomes latest victim of egg attack | Watch

Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra has become the latest victim of ‘egging’, a unique and popular public protest in West Bengal that has attracted the limelight ever since the Mamata Banerjee-led party faced a major defeat at the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the assembly elections.

The incident took place day after the Calcutta High Court directed the Suvendu Adhikari government to formulate guidelines on such attacks.

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Eggs rained on the glass windows of the roadside party office at Kaliganj in Nadia where Moitra, one of the most vocal voices of the Kalighat faction of TMC was seated.

Moitra who was inside the office with party workers and local leaders, recorded the incident on her mobile phone and accused BJP supporters of orchestrating it, turning a routine political meeting in Nadia district into the latest flashpoint in Bengal’s escalating wave of egg-pelting protests.

Wednesday’s incident made the Krishnagar MP the newest target in a string of attacks on ruling Trinamool Congress leaders since the recent Assembly election results. Two videos of the episode surfaced shortly afterwards and rapidly went viral on social media.

One video, apparently filmed by the protesters, shows a group of men and women standing outside the party office, hurling eggs toward the establishment while raising slogans as traffic continues to move along the adjoining road.

Currently being attacked by @bjp4india goons with @wbpolice watching on.@MamataOfficial @RahulGandhi @akhliesh @supriya_sule @mkstalin @ArvindKejriwal pic.twitter.com/eD2gYU0NPx

— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) July 1, 2026

The second video, recorded by Moitra from inside the party office, captures eggs striking the windows as she films the scene while seated with TMC leaders and workers.

As the eggs hit the glass panes, Moitra is heard alleging that BJP workers were behind the attack. The Trinamool Congress later repeated the allegation, while there was no immediate response from the BJP.

In another video released after the incident, Moitra claimed that she had informed the police about the gathering outside the party office but that no effective action was taken to prevent the attack.

Displaying egg stains and vegetable pieces that she said had struck her during the protest, the MP accused the police of remaining passive as protesters targeted the premises.

She was also seen addressing viewers directly, urging “the people of India” to watch the incident and questioning why CRPF personnel present nearby had not dispersed the crowd. Simultaneously, she appealed to Director General of Police Rajeev Kumar to view the footage and take note of the situation.

The attack comes against the backdrop of a growing pattern of similar incidents targeting Trinamool leaders across the state.

On June 7, residents hurled eggs at a police vehicle carrying TMC leader Sujoy Hazra in Midnapore amid allegations that he had taken money for housing construction without delivering promised homes.

On the same day, eggs were also thrown at Kolkata councillors Bappaditya Dasgupta and Md Jasimuddin while they were being escorted by police in connection with criminal cases.

Former minister Ujjal Biswas was similarly attacked with eggs by the BJP workers in his house in Krishnagar on 8 June.

Minister Udayan Guha faced a similar protest on 18 June, while TMC leader Vijay Singh was pelted with eggs outside an Asansol court on 19 June by demonstrators shouting “chor, chor” (meaning ‘thief, thief’).

The spate of attacks eventually prompted the Trinamool Congress to approach the Calcutta High Court, seeking judicial intervention over what it described as coordinated assaults on its MPs, MLAs and party workers.

Hearing a public interest litigation, a division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee directed the West Bengal government to ensure that police register First Information Reports in every instance of egg-pelting, irrespective of whether the target is an accused person or a political opponent.

The bench observed that no individual could be deprived of fundamental rights merely because he or she was an accused or belonged to a rival political camp. It said isolated arrests would not solve the problem and emphasised that the state had a responsibility to curb the growing trend of such attacks.

The High Court has asked the government to submit an affidavit by 20 July detailing the number of FIRs registered and the measures taken to tackle the menace, while also directing the state to frame guidelines to prevent similar incidents in future.

During the hearing, the state government informed the court that it did not support people taking the law into their own hands and that arrests had already been made in some of the egg-pelting cases.