As Mamata Banerjee-led All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) leaders are facing stiff criticism from people at large, TMC MP Sougata Roy Thursday, May 28, was welcomed with eggs and slogans of ‘chor chor’ in his own constituency of Dum Dum while he was coming out of the Nimta Police Station in North 24 Parganas after submitting a memorandum alleging attacks on party workers after the 2026 Assembly elections in West Bengal.
This comes after the BJP delivered a crushing defeat to the TMC in the recently concluded state Assembly polls, crowning long-time Mamata-loyalist Suvendu Adhikari as the first chief minister of West Bengal from the Bharatiya Janata Party.
After its victory in Falta repoll, the BJP’s tally in the 294-member West Bengal Assembly has risen to 208 seats, followed by Trinamool Congress at 80. The Congress and Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) have two seats each, while CPI(M) and the All India Secular Front (AISF) hold one seat each.
Post the Assembly elections, Mamata Banerjee’s TMC is drawing flak from the electorate at several places, while several of its bigwigs have either left the party or on their way out, including close aides as Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Dr Santanu Sen.
According to sources, when Roy was leaving the police station, a group of people gathered and started protesting and raising slogans. Eggs were hurled at him, though none hit the MP.
Meanwhile, Roy accused BJP supporters of fomenting the protest and the attack. “BJP workers and supporters had deliberately organised the demonstration,” Roy said.
The BJP, however, junked the allegations. State BJP spokesperson Debajit Sarkar said the party neither supported nor was involved in such actions. “Undesirable, but not unusual,” is how he described the incident.
Out of the seven Assembly segments under the Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency, the TMC lost six, retaining only Kamarhati.
Roy is also estranged from Kamarhati MLA Madan Mitra.