Abhishek Banerjee’s Camac Street office
Kolkata Police Commissioner Ajay Nand said, “Police work was obstructed. Abhishek said the “entire Kolkata Police” was tasked on Thursday to remove the TMC signage. Later the same night, a new “All India Trinamool Congress” banner was put up in its place.
Reacting to the Camac Street episode and the subsequent arrests, Trinamool Congress chief and former CM Mamata Banerjee asked if the final aim was to loot the party office. She also dared the police to take action against BJP flags and festoons in a similar manner. “’Why did you come to our office armed with gas cutters? Why did you come? We are examining what happened. Cooperation was sought but not received. Action will be taken against those responsible after reviewing video footage. I would tell my friends in the BJP: inflict only as much oppression as you are prepared for us to endure. But by morning, the banner had vanished, deepening the mystery. It is suspected that someone removed it again late in the night.
Previously, too, you had taken away so many things from the office. Was it for the purpose of loot?” asked Banerjee while addressing the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad Foundation Day Rally on Friday. “Yesterday, they unlawfully came to remove the billboards and signboards from our party office. On Thursday afternoon, workers from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation took down the billboard at his office.