Police deployed as TMC billboard row erupts

Kolkata Police personnel were deployed at Camac Street on 27 August 2026 as protesters gathered against the removal of a Trinamool Congress (TMC) billboard from the office of party leader Abhishek Banerjee. (Photo: NationPress/Kuntal Chakrabarty)

Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporters raised slogans at Camac Street, Kolkata, on 27 August 2026, protesting the dismantling of a party billboard outside Abhishek Banerjee's office. (Photo: NationPress/Kuntal Chakrabarty)

Crowds of Trinamool Congress supporters gathered outside Abhishek Banerjee's Camac Street office in Kolkata on 27 August 2026, raising slogans as civic officials moved to remove the party's billboard. (Photo: NationPress/Kuntal Chakrabarty)

Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials dismantled a Trinamool Congress billboard from the Camac Street office of party leader Abhishek Banerjee on 27 August 2026, with police personnel standing guard throughout the operation. (Photo: NationPress/Kuntal Chakrabarty)

Under police escort, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) workers removed a TMC hoarding from the Camac Street premises of Abhishek Banerjee in West Bengal on 27 August 2026, triggering a standoff with party workers. (Photo: NationPress/Kuntal Chakrabarty)

Kolkata Police stood guard as KMC crews completed the dismantling of a Trinamool Congress billboard at Abhishek Banerjee's Camac Street office in Kolkata on 27 August 2026, amid vocal opposition from TMC workers nearby. (Photo: NationPress/Kuntal Chakrabarty)

Kolkata Police personnel and Trinamool Congress supporters reportedly scuffled during the operation to remove a party billboard from Abhishek Banerjee's Camac Street office on 27 August 2026, raising tensions in the area. (Photo: NationPress/Kuntal Chakrabarty)

TMC Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien spoke to reporters at Camac Street, Kolkata, on 27 August 2026, amid the standoff over the KMC-ordered removal of a party billboard from Abhishek Banerjee's office. (Photo: NationPress/Kuntal Chakrabarty)

Kolkata Police and Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials arrived jointly at Camac Street on 27 August 2026 to execute the removal of a Trinamool Congress billboard from Abhishek Banerjee's office. (Photo: NationPress/Kuntal Chakrabarty)

A joint team of Kolkata Police and KMC officials reached the Camac Street office of Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee in Kolkata on 27 August 2026 to carry out the contested billboard removal. (Photo: NationPress/Kuntal Chakrabarty)

Civic and law-enforcement officials converged on the Camac Street premises of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee in Kolkata, West Bengal, on 27 August 2026 to enforce the billboard takedown order. (Photo: NationPress/Kuntal Chakrabarty)

A Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) order to remove a Trinamool Congress billboard from Camac Street in central Kolkata sparked a standoff on 27 August 2026, with police deployed alongside civic officials at Abhishek Banerjee's office. (Photo: NationPress/Kuntal Chakrabarty)

Abhishek Banerjee, General Secretary and MP of the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), directly confronted Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials and police at his Camac Street office in Kolkata on 27 August 2026, disputing the authority to remove the party's billboard. (Photo: NationPress/Kuntal Chakrabarty)

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