Five people have been arrested and two others detained in connection with the assault on Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee in West Bengal’s Sonarpur, The Indian Express quoted the police as saying on Sunday.A suo motu case was registered after the attack and three specialised teams carried out overnight raids across the area.The seven persons were identified “based on security camera and news footage”, the Hindustan Times quoted an unidentified police officer as saying.Five were formally arrested after questioning, while two were detained for further investigation, another police officer told The Indian Express.The arrested suspects are expected to be produced before a court in Baruipur later on Sunday.On Saturday, Banerjee was attacked during a visit to Sonarpur, where he had gone to meet the family of a party worker allegedly killed in post-poll violence.A mob reportedly threw eggs and stones at the leader and shouted slogans of “chor, chor” or “thief, thief”. Videos shared on social media showed the TMC leader – wearing a helmet – being assaulted.The TMC alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party workers were behind the attack. However, the BJP denied involvement and said the protest reflected public anger, The Indian Express reported.Banerjee sustained minor injuries and was taken to two private hospitals for examination before being discharged later that night. Doctors said he suffered bruising to his chest but did not require admission.Speaking after the incident, Banerjee alleged there had been inadequate security arrangements and said he would approach the Calcutta High Court over the matter.“They want to kill me,” he also said. “Let them kill me. Let my dead body be recovered from here.”‘Utterly reprehensible’, says OppositionCongress leader Rahul Gandhi condemned the assault, calling it “utterly reprehensible”.In a statement on social media, he said an attack on a member of Parliament was an attack on the people who elected him and on democracy itself.“This is the ugly face of the BJP’s politics of revenge,” he said. “Political differences can never justify violence.”Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Aaditya Thackeray claimed the attack was “a signal to the world of how democracy has virtually been ended in our country”.“If the safety of MPs cannot be assured, what is the world going to look at this as,” he asked.West Bengal minister Dilip Ghosh said the attack on Banerjee should not have happened and that nobody had the right to take the law into their own hands, ANI reported.However, he added that “the public has been enduring what they've been putting up with for the past 15 years” and said that “the anger inside the public has to show up somewhere”.Another TMC leader attackedIn a separate incident on Sunday, TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee alleged that he was attacked near Chanditala Police Station in Hooghly district while on his way to submit a deputation regarding post-poll violence, ANI reported.Kalyan Banerjee claimed BJP workers assaulted him and hit him on the head with a ball, causing a bleeding injury.Following the incident, the TMC MP staged a protest with party workers outside the police station, PTI reported.Edited by Neerad Pandharipande.