Guwahati, June 25: The Assam BJP and family of Rajya Sabha MP George Baker today condemned the attack on him at Kalna town in Bengal's Burdwan district yesterday.

The actor escaped with minor injuries after he was beaten up with rods and hockey sticks allegedly by Trinamul Congress workers yesterday afternoon.

Assam BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass today said, "This attack has exposed that Trinamul workers are afraid of the growing popularity of the Narendra Modi government and the BJP at the grassroots level in Bengal."

"This is not done. This is a democracy and there are ways to resolve things," Baker's son, David, currently based in Gurgaon, told The Telegraph over phone.

Baker, who is from Assam but now settled in Calcutta, enjoyed popularity here for the role of British planter Berkeley, which he played in the 1975 classic Chameli Memsaab.

"Every BJP worker has the right to be involved in party activities anywhere in the country. They (Trinamul workers) must understand that such acts will never be able to demoralise our party workers," Dass said.

"I am so happy the people of Assam are worried about me. They made me what I am," Baker told The Telegraph over phone from Calcutta this evening. According to Baker, who represents the Anglo-Indian community in Parliament, he and some of his party workers were on their way to Katiganga in Burdwan district as part of the party's Vistarak Yojana, "a project that involves meeting people and talking to them about what the party is doing and having a meal with them".

"Yesterday, we were on our way to Katiganga around 1.40pm. While we were crossing the Trinamul office, we were accosted by its workers who rushed out and asked us ( on 10 or 15 bikes and in a car) who had given us permission to come there? They started beating up our members. Within five minutes there was mayhem. I saw one of our workers, who was struck on the head, rush towards the car and I got out to help him. That is when I was hit with rods and staves on the back as I was shielding him."

Baker said the sub-divisional police officer arrived to control the situation. "I doubt that anything will come of the FIR that we filed as there is a wonky state government in place. I say wonky because nothing in the state is now the way it should be."

Asked if he'd like to come back home once he retires, he said: "Let's see ... I'd like to retire with my boots on."