Kolkata: TMC office in New Market vandalised using bulldozer by mob carrying BJP flags

Several structures, including a Trinamool Congress office, in the New Market area of Kolkata were vandalised by a mob carrying flags of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday, according to reports.

Videos widely shared on social media showed the group using a bulldozer to raze a structure.

Among the structures vandalised was the TMC’s New Market Union office, which was allegedly the primary target of the mob, The Hindu reported.

TMC’s Rajya Sabha leader Derek O’Brien claimed that the bulldozer had been “brought in to demolish meat shops” as part of the BJP’s “victory celebration”.

The central forces were “standing around”, he claimed on social media.

The incident occurred a day after the BJP on Monday defeated the TMC in the West Bengal Assembly elections. The Hindutva party won 207 seats in the 294-member Assembly, ending the 15-year rule of the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC.

Kolkata’s historic New Market. Bengalis revelling in Parivartan. pic.twitter.com/TfW6jJNkgo— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) May 5, 2026

Police personnel were deployed at the spot following the incident and security arrangements have been increased in the area, also known as the Hogg Market, India Today reported.

While it is unclear what triggered the act of vandalism and the sequence of events, the TMC accused the BJP leadership of enabling the violence.

“BJP’s ‘Poriborton’ has arrived and it has arrived with a bulldozer,” the party said on social media. “In an act of...

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