Archive · 16 Aug 2026

TMC youth leader claims ABVP workers attacked her, hurled eggs

TMC youth leader claims ABVP workers attacked her, hurled eggs

On Independence Day, a young leader named Upasana Chowdhury went to a college in Kolkata, India, to put up the national flag.

She is the president of a student group called the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad and belongs to a political party called the All India Trinamool Congress, or TMC.

She says that people from a student group called the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, or ABVP, stopped her from going into the college.

She also says they pushed her and threw eggs at her.

She says police told her group not to stand at the front of the college and that the police were helping the people who attacked her.

She also said people who were not from the college came in without anyone checking their identity cards.

The group was reportedly stopped because they did not have college identity cards.

A leader from another party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, said the incident was just people showing anger at the TMC.

The police have not said anything yet about what happened.

Because the two sides tell different stories, we do not know exactly what happened.

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