CPI(M) leader Nilotpal Basu reacts to the attack on Trinamool finance minister Amit Mitra. He said he opposed violence in such protests but said Banerjee "should accept that these are public outpourings against the manner in which the students are treated under the Trinamool rule."

"She kept on saying it is a small and petty matter and refused to order a judicial probe.... Do you think that after all this, the students will shower petals on her," Basu said. Reacting to the incident, CPI leader Atul Kumar Anjaan said he "disapproved" of the way the protest was carried out but castigated the Trinamool government in West Bengal for the death of the SFI activist.

"I want to ask what her government has done (in regard to the death case). The way her government, her administration and her police functioned, they killed the student in their custody, it is a matter of shame for all," he said.

"She (Mamata) was herself in student politics and she might have organised such protests, such demonstrations herself. She will herself have to face the wrath of the people when such a gruesome incident has occurred under her rule," Anjaan said.