Hooghly, June 18 -- West Bengal Minister and BJP leader Agnimitra Paul said that repeated egg-throwing incidents at Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders have been a show of public anger over years of alleged corruption in the state. Calling it a show of 'deemocracy' by the people, she said the people have not forgotten the persecution and corruption of the last few years.

Speaking to reporters in Hooghly on Wednesday, Paul said, "We don't want anyone to take the law into their own hands, but you cannot forget how the people of Bengal were persecuted, corruption happened on every level of the society, and Mamata Banerjee did not do anything."

The BJP leader alleged that people in the state had suffered due to corruption and misgovernance and...