The efforts to reach a deal were thrown into question this week by US strikes on the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, countered by retaliatory Iranian fire.
The TMC leader faced the anger of protesters who allegedly attacked him physically, tearing his shirt and damaging his spectacles while shouting slogans calling him a “thief”.
Congress slammed the BJP for the attack on the TMC leader, saying the lack of police protection exposes the ruling party's politics of "vendetta and persecution" against opposition leaders.
