Mamata Banerjee Cuts Short Bhabanipur Rally After Alleging BJP Disrupted Speech with Loud Music

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee cut short her speech at a rally in her Bhabanipur constituency on Saturday, alleging that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was deliberately disrupting her meeting by playing loud music from a nearby public event.

Banerjee was holding a public meeting in the evening at the Chakraberia area in the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency when she alleged that loudspeakers from a BJP rally nearby were preventing her from addressing the crowd.

She said, “They are trying to deliberately engage in a quarrel. They are shouting in the vicinity so that I can’t hold the meeting. Mothers, sisters and brothers, please forgive me. I will hold a rally in this area tomorrow. Behave in such a shameless manner. This represents so insulting and humiliating. I apologise to you before I leave the dais.”

This is partiality. Is it possible to hold a public meeting in this way? I have taken official permission. This is wrong. They are doing this to capture Bengal forcefully. If they behave like this, I am sorry, I will have to take legal action.

Mamata Banerjee

Banerjee further stated that the disruption violated election rules and regulations, warning that if such actions continued, Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers might respond in kind by installing loudspeakers near BJP rallies.

BJP’s IT cell head Amit Malviya commented on the incident via social media, writing, “When leaders start losing composure, it often reflects deeper anxiety. Is this the sound of an impending defeat?”