'Chor' Slogans Greet Mamata Banerjee At Calcutta High Court After Post-Poll Violence Hearing - VIDEO
TMC chief Mamata Banerjee appeared as counsel at the Calcutta High Court to seek intervention over post-poll violence in Bengal, claiming ten lives since 4 May. As she left the premises, a crowd directed hostile slogans at her. Trinamool blamed BJP-linked lawyers for instigating the incident, calling it evidence of collapsing democratic norms under the new political regime.
Kolkata: Former West Bengal chief minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee leaves after appearing before the Calcutta High Court to argue a case in connection with alleged post-poll violence and attacks on party offices, in Kolkata, Thursday, May 14, 2026. (PTI Photo) |
Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appeared before a division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday, representing victims of alleged post-poll violence as their counsel, a rare move for a politician who also holds a bar council membership. She argued before Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen, urging the court to direct police to register FIRs in all poll-related violence cases and protect minorities and marginalised communities. She told the bench that at least ten people had been killed since election results were declared on 4 May.
However, the day took a dramatic turn as Banerjee was leaving the court premises. A section of the gathered crowd began raising slogans calling her a thief. Speaking to reporters moments after the incident, she claimed she had been assaulted, though no injury was reported.
Trinamool Congress swiftly condemned the episode. Senior party leader and lawyer Kalyan Banerjee, who accompanied the former chief minister and assisted in the hearing, alleged that lawyers affiliated with the BJP were behind the provocation. He said the legal team faced considerable difficulty escorting her out safely, and warned that if a three-time chief minister could be treated this way inside a court compound, ordinary party workers across Bengal faced far worse.
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Trinamool spokesperson Arup Chakraborty echoed that view, describing the incident as a sign of deteriorating democratic norms under what he called the new BJP dispensation in the state.
The PIL before the court was filed by lawyer Shirshanya Bandyopadhyay on behalf of Trinamool on 12 May, alleging that party workers were driven from their homes and attacked following the election results. Banerjee, who personally lost her Bhabanipur seat to BJP's Suvendu Adhikari and has declined to resign as CM pending a legal challenge to the results, wore the traditional black lawyer's jacket over her signature white saree for the hearing.
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