'Milord, faced eggs like…': Mahua Moitra invokes SC judge's remark after ‘BJP workers pelt eggs’ on her

Mahua Moitra alleged that eggs were thrown at her by BJP workers when she visited her constituency on Wednesday. 

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TMC MP Mahua Moitra posted a video on X claiming that eggs were thrown at her by “BJP supporters” when she visited her constituency, Krishnanagar, on Wednesday.

Taking a dig at a Supreme Court judges' comment that she should not fear eggs when freedom fighters faced bullets, Mahua said she was ‘pelted with eggs by BJP workers during her visit to her constituency for a meeting’, and she faced the incident like 'freedom fighters faced bullets'. Mahua alleged that eggs were thrown at her despite having informed the West Bengal Police about it.

“Big shout out to Hon’ble Justice Dipankar Datta. MiLord. BJP workers, with their help, pelted eggs at me. True to your advice, I faced them as a freedom fighter faced bullets,” Moitra said.

Last month, a SC bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu had reprimanded Mahua when she filed a plea seeking permission to join police interrogation through video conferencing in a case over her allegedly provocative Facebook posts, telling her that having “taken the plunge into politics”, she could not shy away from appearing before investigators merely because she feared eggs being hurled at her.

“You are a member of Parliament? Having taken the plunge into politics, you fear eggs? When our freedom fighters have taken bullets on their chest? These are applications that should not come before this court at all,” the bench had remarked while declining to interfere with an order of the Calcutta high court directing Moitra to appear before the investigating officer in person.

This is not the first time eggs have been hurled at Mahua in Bengal this year since TMC lost power in the state. In July too, she had alleged that a group of people hurled eggs at a venue where she was meeting party workers in Bengal. She had blamed BJP workers for the incident at that time as well. Mahua has maintained that the police refuse to act even when she reaches out to them about these ‘attacks’.

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