Mamata Banerjee Has “Foot, Shoulder, Neck Accidents”, On 48-Hour Watch

Kolkata:

Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee was once noticed in health facility along with her left leg in a solid in a photograph tweeted via her nephew Abhishek Banerjee this morning, an afternoon after she alleged an assault in Nandigram, the place she filed her nomination for the state election later this month.

Abhishek Banerjee, a Trinamool Congress MP, shared the picture with a message focused on the BJP, which has fastened an competitive marketing campaign to check out and oust the two-time Leader Minister and her Trinamool Congress from energy in Bengal.

“BJP brace yourselves to look the ability of folks of BENGAL on Sunday, Might second. Get in a position,” he tweeted.

Mamata Banerjee, 66, stated remaining night time she was once driven via 4 or 5 folks in opposition to her automobile and had the door close on her at a time when there have been no police group of workers round her.

Having a look faded and pointing to her leg, she stated, “See how it’s swelling up”. Requested if it was once a deliberate assault, she stated, “After all this is a conspiracy… there have been no policemen round me”. She seemed to be in ache whilst talking.

She had plans to stick the evening in Nandigram after submitting her election papers however was once taken to a health facility in Kolkata, 130 km away, after the incident.

In step with medical doctors on the SSKM Health center in Kolkata, there have been accidents to her foot, shoulder and neck and she or he were given painkillers.

“Preliminary exam suggests critical bony accidents in her left ankle, foot and bruises, accidents in proper shoulder, forearm and neck. The Leader Minister complained of chest ache, breathlessness because the incident. She is saved beneath shut wait for 48 hours,” M Bandopadhya, a health care provider, was once quoted as announcing via information company ANI.

The Leader Minister underwent a battery of exams together with neurological exams and an X-ray of her left leg. Overdue within the evening, she was once despatched to the Bangur Institute of Neurosciences at SSKM for an MRI. In step with assets, she has sustained accidents on decrease limbs which might be swollen and painful.

The assault got here an afternoon after the Election Fee changed the Director Normal of Bengal Police, Mr Virender, amid allegations of violence voiced via the BJP. An IPS officer of the 1987 batch, P Nirajnayan, has been named the brand new police leader.

The Election Fee has requested the Bengal management for a document at the assault at the Leader Minister who has Z-Plus safety. The document needs to be submitted via Friday.

The incident intensifies a nerve-wracking political fight in Nandigram, which has develop into the epicenter of the Mamata Banerjee as opposed to BJP battle that’s the theme of the Bengal election beginning March 27.

The Leader Minister has been challenged in Nandigram via her former aide-turned-BJP rival Suvendu Adhikari.

Mr Adhikari received the Nandigram seat in 2016 as a Trinamool candidate and his supporters have pitched Mamata Banerjee as an “outsider”. Combating that label, the Leader Minister has been campaigning within the space that catapulted her party to energy in 2011 following an agitation in opposition to farmland acquisition.  

The BJP, which had blamed the Trinamool after its leader JP Nadda’s convoy got here beneath assault in Bengal in December, referred to as the incident a stunt via the ruling party.  

“Is it Taliban that her convoy was once attacked? Large police drive accompanies her. Who can get close to her?” stated state BJP vice-president Arjun Singh. “4 IPS officials are her safety in-charge and should be suspended. Attackers do not seem out of nowhere, they must be arrested… She did drama for sympathy,” he added.

Elections in Bengal will likely be held in a file 8 rounds over 33 days. The consequences will likely be declared on Might 2.