KOLKATA: Dramatic visuals purportedly from the Trinamool Congress’ Camac Street office in Kolkata showed several masked and helmeted men walking out of the premises carrying TV screens, printer and other items after an alleged early-morning attack on Thursday.The footage also showed a room littered with broken objects, with furniture and electronic equipment apparently damaged.TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee alleged that BJP workers, armed with weapons, stormed the party office at around 4.30am, assaulted people inside, snatched their phones, smashed furniture and ransacked the premises.Calling it a “disgraceful assault on the rule of law”, Banerjee alleged that Kolkata Police failed to respond for nearly two hours despite repeated calls and emails from party workers and lawyers.“We demand the immediate arrest of every person involved in this attack,” Banerjee said, also seeking an investigation into who allegedly planned, organised and directed the violence and accountability over the alleged police inaction.The incident comes amid an ongoing controversy over Banerjee’s Camac Street office, days after West Bengal Police registered an FIR against him, TMC MP Derek O’Brien and others in connection with alleged obstruction and assault of police personnel during the removal of an allegedly unauthorised hoarding at the address.
