Abhishek Banerjee 'forgives' his attacker
In his Facebook post, the politician said: "It has been about 24 hours since yesterday’s incident. What happened in Chandipur is now the subject of a police enquiry. So let me restrain myself from making any comments that would pre-judge the enquiry."
He said: "My beliefs and my will to work will not lessen because of what happened. Whoever is behind this act of cowardice has no idea what we are made of. I am now doubly committed to working for the people and doing my very best for them. "
"At a personal level, however, let me forgive the perpetrator and wish him early recovery. Today is a new day, let us look ahead. I also urge my co-workers to maintain peace, harmony through out the state and be restrained in their actions," Banerjee said.
Abhishek Banerjee was slapped at a public meeting in East Midnapore by a youth while he was addressing people, triggering chaos and assault of the attacker by TMC supporters.
Banerjee was making a speech at a youth wing programme of TMC at Chandipore when the incident occurred on the dais.
According to reports, the attacker was identified as Debasis Acharya.
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