By PTI
KOLKATA: A girl, a resident of West Bengal’s Amtala space, on Tuesday took off her pair of footwear and made an try and throw her footwear at suspended Trinamool Congress chief Partha Chatterjee when the latter was being escorted out of a hospital right here by Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers.
It, nevertheless, missed its mark.
The incident befell when the arrested former TMC chief was taken by the ED officers to the ESI Hospital in Joka for a medical check-up.
The middle-aged lady, Shubra Ghorui, is claimed to have harboured anger towards Chatterjee after the seizure of round Rs 50 crore in money, together with jewelry, by the Enforcement Directorate from two residences of Arpita Mukherjee, a detailed affiliate of the suspended TMC chief.
“I had come here to hit (Partha) Chatterjee with my shoes. After ‘cheating’ people he is travelling in AC cars. He must be dragged with a rope I will walk back home barefoot. It is not only my anger but that of lakhs and lakhs of people of West Bengal,” Ghorui instructed reporters.
The veteran chief, who has been relieved of his ministerial duties, was then whisked away in a car from the hospital premises by ED safety personnel.
“I would have been very happy if the shoes had hit him. I will not take the shoes back,” the girl acknowledged.
Ghorui had gone to the power for a medical examination of her relative.
Both Chatterjee and Mukherjee have been arrested by the ED on July 23 in reference to its probe into the multi-crore instructor recruitment rip-off.
The arrested chief was taken by the ED officers to the ESI Hospital in Joka for a medical check-up and police had put up tight safety preparations contained in the premises.
In the previous, many politicians within the nation have been focused by indignant folks with footwear and slippers.
An Aam Aadmi Party Sena member had hurled a shoe at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal throughout a press convention within the nationwide capital in 2016.
Former finance minister and Congress chief P Chidambaram had narrowly escaped being hit by a Sikh journalist’s shoe in April 2009.
KOLKATA: A girl, a resident of West Bengal’s Amtala space, on Tuesday took off her pair of footwear and made an try and throw her footwear at suspended Trinamool Congress chief Partha Chatterjee when the latter was being escorted out of a hospital right here by Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers.
It, nevertheless, missed its mark.
The incident befell when the arrested former TMC chief was taken by the ED officers to the ESI Hospital in Joka for a medical check-up.
The middle-aged lady, Shubra Ghorui, is claimed to have harboured anger towards Chatterjee after the seizure of round Rs 50 crore in money, together with jewelry, by the Enforcement Directorate from two residences of Arpita Mukherjee, a detailed affiliate of the suspended TMC chief.
“I had come here to hit (Partha) Chatterjee with my shoes. After ‘cheating’ people he is travelling in AC cars. He must be dragged with a rope I will walk back home barefoot. It is not only my anger but that of lakhs and lakhs of people of West Bengal,” Ghorui instructed reporters.
The veteran chief, who has been relieved of his ministerial duties, was then whisked away in a car from the hospital premises by ED safety personnel.
“I would have been very happy if the shoes had hit him. I will not take the shoes back,” the girl acknowledged.
Ghorui had gone to the power for a medical examination of her relative.
Both Chatterjee and Mukherjee have been arrested by the ED on July 23 in reference to its probe into the multi-crore instructor recruitment rip-off.
The arrested chief was taken by the ED officers to the ESI Hospital in Joka for a medical check-up and police had put up tight safety preparations contained in the premises.
In the previous, many politicians within the nation have been focused by indignant folks with footwear and slippers.
An Aam Aadmi Party Sena member had hurled a shoe at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal throughout a press convention within the nationwide capital in 2016.
Former finance minister and Congress chief P Chidambaram had narrowly escaped being hit by a Sikh journalist’s shoe in April 2009.
