It has been two months since the BJP ended the 15-year tyrannical rule of the Trinamool Congress; however, the public anger against TMC leaders has not yet subsided. After Abhishek Banerjee and Kalyan Banerjee, TMC leader Nilanjan Das has reportedly met the blunt end of the ire of Bengali people. On 8th July, TMC IT Cell head and spokesperson Nilanjan Das was assaulted by locals in Kolkata’s Bhowanipore area.
Several videos have surfaced online, showing Nilanjan Das being confronted by a group of people, who also thrashed and dragged him. Meanwhile, the TMC IT Cell head is seen crying and begging at times.
In the video, angry locals could be heard calling Nilanjan Das “chor chor”.
Nilanjan Das is one of the bonded slaves of TMC. A vile cockroach who used to threaten anyone opposed to TMC’s fascism. Today, locals seem to have expressed their.. let’s say.. displeasure with him
— Nupur J Sharma (@UnSubtleDesi) July 8, 2026
I share this video to privately chuckle and publicly condemn such public reaction pic.twitter.com/Mze7KVku2V
Nilanjan Das getting manhandled in Kolkata’s Bhawanipore is politically significant. Bhawanipore is considered TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee’s stronghold.
Das was dragged by angry locals while he was interacting with a journalist. However, a police official intervened and escorted the TMC leader away.
From threatening FIRs against critics for a sport to facing public fury: Who is TMC leader Nilanjan Das?
Nilanjan Das is a prominent TMC leader and the party’s spokesperson making regular appearances on TV news debate programs. Das serves as State General Secretary and head’s TMC’s IT and Social Media Wing.
The TMC leader has an opprobrious record of threatening FIRs against anyone who criticized his party or Mamata Banerjee.
Nilanjan Das is a close aide of TMC motormouth MP Mahua Moitra.
In December 2025, the TMC State General Secretary, IT & Social Media Wing, Nilanjan Das filed a complaint against Shashank Singh, the man behind the popular X handle “Befitting Facts” over his posts criticising the TMC government over the gross mismanagement during the visit of global football icon Lionel Messi in Kolkata. The X user had also published critical posts against Mahua Moitra.
Singh was arrested after Das had filed a cyber complaint on 11th December, accusing Befitting Facts and another X user, Subham, of circulating “fake, fabricated and defamatory posts” accusing TMC MP Mahua Moitra of smoking e-cigarettes inside the parliament.
Sharing the complaint on his X handle, Nilanjan Das wrote, “Filed a complaint against BJP IT cell morons @subhsays @BefittingFacts for posting baseless, defamatory tweets against MP @MahuaMoitra.”
Nilanjan Das’s verified X handle was suspended by X at that time.
In April this year, Nilanjan Das got an FIR registered against an X user for posting a cartoon of then West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
An X user criticised Das’s hounding tactics, saying that India is a democracy, and that the TMC leader should be ashamed.
In response, Nilanjan Das issued a veiled threat and wrote, “You’ll see democracy in action after 4th May.”
Das was apparently talking about TMC’s post-poll violent political retribution against the BJP and its supporters. However, the Bengali people handed a grand victory to the BJP and a humiliating defeat to the TMC.
Over recent years, Nilanjan Das has targeted numerous critics of the TMC regime through online intimidation and FIRs.
Back in June 2024, the people of a housing society in Kolkata were being punished by the TMC government for voting in favour of the BJP.
Garbage was being dumped outside ‘Sunrise Heights’ in the Beleghata neighbourhood of Central Kolkata as 543 residents of the housing complex voted against TMC.
Demonstrating peak shamelessness, Nilanjan Das ubbed the action of dumping garbage outside the housing society as a ‘non-violent means of revenge.’
The Trinamool Congress is home to several Hinduphobe politicians be it Sayoni Gosh or Mamata Banerjee herself who boasts of fighting Hindu Kafirs. Nilanjan Das is also among the TMC’s top Hinduphobes.
Back in 2020 when the nation was observing a lockdown in the wake of Covid pandemic, Nilanjan Das published an X post derisively referring to Ramayana, the Hindu epic, as a cartoon. He also hurled the ‘gomutra’ jibe.
In another post, Nilanjan Das echoed what Congress said in 2007 when it questioned the existence of Lord Ram. “What God? A mythological character in Ramayana epic,” Das wrote.
In addition to online Hinduphobia, and issuing FIR threats against critical voices, Nilanjan Das also has track record of insulting ideological adversaries.
In July 2025, when popular actor and BJP leader Rupali Ganguly criticised then CM Mamata Banerjee’s governance, Nilanjan Das came to Banerjee’s defence. Das, however, did not counter Ganguly’s remarks, rather he dismissed her as a “flop soap actress”.
“The seniormost stateswoman of India doesn’t need lectures from a flop soap actress. FO!,” Das wrote on 19th July 2025.
Demonstrating his goon-like behaviour, Das called senior government advisor Kanchan Gupta an “old hag” during a live TV debate on post-poll violence in Bengal.
After May 4 election results in West Bengal, reports emerged at least two FIRs were filed against Nilanjan Das, one in Serampore in Bengal, and the other in Assam. Das had temporarily deactivated his X account back then.
Unsurprisingly, many people on social media are calling the assault against Nilanjan Das in Kolkata as “Karma”, for he is finally facing the same threats and intimidation he subjected his party’s critics to for years.
