#TMCSlapGate Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee slapped during a TMC youth rally [Vine video] https://t.co/PxXmtfY0m1 — TIMES NOW (@timesnow) January 4, 2015

We will look into this and find out if any outsider was involved: Derek O'Brien, TMC pic.twitter.com/UkVPumfmGt — ANI (@ANI_news) January 4, 2015

Someone wanted to come on stage to click a photo with him, may be he was slapped on that pretext: Derek O'Brien pic.twitter.com/ZBoiIVYEt7 — ANI (@ANI_news) January 4, 2015

It shows there is a civil war in TMC that has openly broken out: Siddharth Nath Singh, BJP, on WB CM’s nephew slapped pic.twitter.com/Ktct8Po3a3 — ANI (@ANI_news) January 4, 2015

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ममता बनर्जी के भतीजे अभिषेक को रैली में युवक ने मारा थप्पड़

NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee 's nephew and party MP Abhishek Banerjee was on Sunday slapped by a party worker during a rally at Chandipur in East Midnapore district.The party worker, who is yet to be identified, suddenly climbed up to the stage and slapped Banerjee, president of the Trinamool Youth Congress , when he was addressing the rally, police officials said.Other party workers soon caught the man and beat him up, they said, adding, he was being taken to the hospital.After the incident the rally of party's youth wing did not progress.