TMC National General Secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee accused the West Bengal Police of filing fresh FIRs against him in alleged false cases on a daily basis to harass him. His remarks came after nearly five hours of questioning at Bhabanipur Police Station in connection with a controversial social media post targeting Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the Gujarati community. Banerjee said he had cooperated with investigators whenever summoned and would continue to do so.
The case relates to a May 2 social media post in which Banerjee allegedly described the CEC as a “puppet of an anti-Bengali Gujarati gang”. Explaining the remark, he said it was made in response to BJP leader Amit Malviya’s description of the Bengali language as “Bangladeshi”. Meanwhile, a separate FIR was registered against Banerjee at Girish Park Police Station over alleged derogatory remarks and threats against a serving IPS officer. He has been summoned for questioning on November 20.
