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Assault on road, CID at door: Abhishek Banerjee faces twin blows
Former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's nephew and Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee faced a bruising day of political turbulence Saturday, coming under attack from protesters in Sonarpur on Kolkata's southern edge and receiving a CID summons in a fake-signature probe as pressure mounted on him after TMC's electoral defeat. Abhishek Banerjee, 38, was chased, abused and assaulted by a crowd while trying to reach the home of a TMC worker killed in post-poll violence in Sonarpur. Protesters...