BJP holds huge protest outside Mamata Banerjee's residence over attack on Roopa Ganguly's convoy

Kolkata: BJP leaders and supporters on Monday held a massive protest outside Mamata Banerjee's residence in Kolkata over attack on Roopa Ganguly's convoy.

On Sunday, actor-turned BJP leader Rupa Ganguly was heckled and her convoy was attacked allegedly by Trinamool Congress supporters near Diamond Harbour in South 24 Parganas district when she was returning to the city.

The incident happened when Ganguly, along with other BJP workers, was returning from Ishwaripur village near Kakdwip in South 24 Parganas after visiting a party worker, who was assaulted allegedly by TMC workers on Saturday and was admitted to a local hospital there.

"Despite several requests, Rupa stopped her car and two other cars in her convoy near Diamond Harbour on her way to Kolkata and started talking to locals, which enraged them. Some boys threw stones at the convoy while few women from the locality pulled Rupas hair and slapped another woman who was with her," a senior district police officer said.

The police posted there intervened and restrained the locals and took control of the situation, he said, adding though Rupa was "not injured", she was taken to a local hospital, where from she was released after a check-up.

"We have not arrested anybody in connection with the incident, but a police posting has been arranged in the locality," he said.

The BJP leader and the party workers accompanying her, however, alleged that they were attacked by TMC activists.

Ganguly, the chief of BJPs state Mahila Morcha unit, had unsuccessfully contested from Howrah (North) seat against TMCs Laxmi Ratan Shukla in the just-concluded state assembly elections.