West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was seen slapping a Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker during a party protest in Kolkata on Wednesday.
A video circulating online purportedly shows a man attempting
to manage the crowd and clear a path for Banerjee as she moved through the gathering.
Moments later, the TMC chief appears to lose her temper and slap the party worker.
The video was shared by BJP MP Raju Bista, who criticised Banerjee over the incident.
“Mamata Banerjee slapped a man during a TMC protest. The man was trying to control the crowd and make way for Mamata. But Mamata lost her cool and slapped her own party worker,” Bista wrote in a post on X.
A man was trying to control the crowd and make way for Mamata.
But Mamata lost her cool and slapped her own party worker. pic.twitter.com/yshjJPvgsU
— Raju Bista (@RajuBistaBJP) July 8, 2026
The TMC chief led a protest march from Ballygunge Phari to Hazra More over the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Baruipur.
Eggs were also thrown at Mamata Banerjee’s protest march from Ballygunge Phari to Hazra More in the state’s capital.
BJP Vs TMC Over Baruipur Rape-Murder
During the protest march, workers of the BJP and the TMC youth wing clashed, prompting police personnel to baton charge to control the situation.
The rally, which was organised by youth workers of the Mamata Banerjee-aligned TMC after securing a green signal from the Calcutta High Court, was repeatedly obstructed by BJP workers who raised “thief” slogans and even tried to set up human barricades along the protest march route along the Hazra Road.
During the course of the rally which originated from Ballygunge Phari in southern Kolkata, agitated workers from both sides were seen getting engaged in fist fights, with security forces intervening with a baton charge to disperse and disengage the brawlers.
Condemning the alleged attack on TMC workers by BJP, Banerjee alleged that the BJP carried out a “planned rampage”, assaulting men and women alike, with “the city police standing by as mute spectators”.
