Mamata attacked in Nandigram; in hospital

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was injured during her campaigning in Nandigram, was seen with a plastered leg lying in a Kolkata hospital after Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, who is also her nephew, shared the picture on Twitter.

 

“BJP4Bengal Brace yourselves to see the power of people of BENGAL on Sunday, May 2nd. Get READY!!!” tweeted Abhishek Banerjee along with the photo.

 

The 66-year-old Trinamool supremo told the media, just before being rushed to Kolkata, that she was pushed by four or five people against her car and had the door shut on her in Birulia Anchal.

 

At the time there were no police personnel around her, she said sitting in the front seat of an SUV.

 

The Chief Minister appeared pale and disheveled as she pointed to her leg, she said, “See how it is swelling up”.

 

When asked if she thought it was a planned attack, she said, “Of course it is a conspiracy… there were no policemen around me”. She appeared to be in pain as she complained of chest pain.

 

She had plans to make a night halt at Nandigram after filing her election papers but had to be rushed back to Kolkata, 130 km away, after the incident.

 

Late night she was admitted to the SSKM Hospital here, and media reports said she had sustained injuries to her foot, shoulder and neck. She had been given painkillers.

 

“Initial examination suggests severe bony injuries in her left ankle, foot and bruises, injuries in right shoulder, forearm and neck. The Chief Minister complained of chest pain, breathlessness since the incident. She is kept under close watch for 48 hours,” Manimoy Bandopadhya, the director of SSKM Hospital, was quoted as saying to the media.

 

Mamata Banerjee, after filing her papers for the Nandigram Assembly constituency seat on March 10 took part in the two-km-long roadshow at Haldia. She was accompanied by party state president Subrata Bakshi.

 

The Trinamool supremo had been contesting polls from her home seat Bhawanipore constituency, but this time chose Nandigram, a stronghold of Trinamool turn-coat Suvendu Adhikari who joined the BJP last year.

 

 

 

 

Image courtesy of (Financial Express)

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