West Bengal FM manhandled, angry Mamata lashes out

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her finance minister Amit Mitra were today the target of the ire of CPI-M and its students' wing activists with protesters manhandling the minister outside the Planning Commission in New Delhi.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her finance minister Amit Mitra were on Tuesday the target of the ire of CPI-M and its students' wing activists with protesters manhandling the minister outside the Planning Commission in New Delhi.

A group of about 150 protesters from CPI-M and SFI ambushed the chief minister and other ministers including Amit Mitra when they arrived at the Planing Commission complex around 3.45pm for annual state plan discussion.

Banerjee, who was advised by police not to get down from her car and drive inside, however, chose to walk through the slogan-shouting and placard-wielding crowd into the building.

While the chief minister was immediately shielded by policemen, it was left to Mitra's lot to face the anger of the activists who were protesting the death of a SFI member Sudipto Ghosh in police custody in Kolkata last week.

As SFI and CPI(M) members chanted "Mamata Banerjee hai hai (Mamata down down), TMC hai hai, Hatyari Mamata sharm karo (have shame, killer Mamata)", an agitated chief minister walked into the building shouting that "this is uncivilised behaviour". More: Amit Mitra complains of chest pain, hospitalised

West Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra was heckled and had his shirt torn off by Students Federation of India activists outside the planning commission in New Delhi. HT

West Bengal chief minster Mamta Bennerjee shouts at deputy chairman of planning commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia and parliamentary affairs minster Rajiv Shukla, after West Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra was heckled and had his shirt torn off by Students Federation of India activists in New Delhi. HT/Mohd Zakir