North 24 Parganas, May 31 -- BJP MLA Arjun Singh took a swipe at Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, claiming that people greeted him with chants of "thief-thief" during his recent visit to Sonapur in South 24 Parganas district. He also denied allegations that BJP leaders were involved in the attack on Banerjee's convoy.

Singh alleged that Banerjee was responsible for forcing thousands of people to flee West Bengal and dismissed the TMC's claims regarding the BJP's involvement in the incident as "false".

Eggs and stones were allegedly hurled during the attack. Singh described the incident as an expression of "public anger".

"Abhishek Banerjee, who forced thousands of people to flee Bengal, was welcome...