In Bengal, governments come and go; political parties rise and fall.
What remains constant — a shameful stain on Bengal’s countenance — is the ogre of mob violence.
Its latest victim, after the change of government in the state, has been Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress’s general-secretary and a three-term parliamentarian.
On Saturday, while visiting the family of a party worker killed in post-poll violence, Mr Banerjee was subjected to a brutal assault.
The jury is out on whether the ‘public’ anger was spontaneous or orchestrated.
Mamata Banerjee and the TMC have alleged that the assault was the handiwork of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
On Sunday, another TMC leader, Kalyan Banerjee, was allegedly attacked in Hooghly.
The BJP, expectedly, has denied the charges, pointing fingers at the people’s disgust with the TMC regime.
Arrests have been made in the Sonarpur violence: the law-keepers must be allowed to reveal the true identity and the allegiance of the culprits.
Gaps in Mr Banerjee’s security protocols need to be investigated too.
The reverberations of Mr Banerjee’s manhandling have been felt in New Delhi too,....
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