Kolkata, May 31 -- West Bengal Minister Dilip Ghosh on Sunday condemned the attack on Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, but added that it reflected rising public anger against the former ruling party.

Reacting to the attack, Ghosh said no one had the right to take the law into their own hands, but argued that people in West Bengal had been suffering under TMC rule for years.

"What happened to Abhishek Banerjee should not have happened. No one has the right to take the law into their own hands, but the public has been enduring what they've been putting up with for the past 15 years. Every single person has been harassed. The anger inside the public has to show up somewhere," Ghosh told reporters.

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