Political nicety made a rare appearance on Monday when senior
Trinamool Congress leader and Parliamentary Affairs Minister
Partha Chatterjee called on Abdur Rezzak Mollah, veteran MLA of
the Communist Party of India (Marxist) convalescing in hospital
here a day after being attacked allegedly by a leader and
supporters of Mr. Chatterjee’s party.  It was on Sunday that Mr.
Chatterjee’s colleague in the Mamata Banerjee government, Firhad
Hakim, claiming that he was speaking for the Trinamool Congress,
had said Mr. Mollah was putting up an act by getting himself
admitted to the hospital.  Rebel Trinamool Congress MP Kabir
Suman, who joined in the condemnation of Mr. Mollah’s attack and
also paid the injured leader a visit, accused Mr. Hakim of
“preaching violence” by contending that had Mr. Mollah been
“actually” attacked in the Bhangar area of the State’s South 24
Parganas district by party supporters who had converged there,
“he would not have gone to (the) hospital” (read there would
have been no need for him