India, Oct. 13 -- A woman who claimed to be a niece of former chief minister Mamata Banerjee allegedly tried to enter her security cordon with a knife in an intoxicated state on Tuesday evening, the Mamata All India Trinamool Congress claimed.

Party MP Dola Sen sent a written complaint to the Kalighat police station in Kolkata stating that the incident took place around 6 pm near Banerjee's residence in Kalighat.

"This is to inform you that around 6 pm on Tuesday, a lady named Tannishtha Saha, reportedly known as a civic volunteer and a drug addict, came with a violent mode and attacked Mamata Banerjee with a knife and furthermore claimed herself as her niece," Sen stated in her letter to the officer-in-charge of Kalighat police station...