Kolkata, March 11: Barely hours after West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said that she was injured after getting attacked by a few men in Nandigram while on the campaign trail, West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury accused her of ‘siyasi pakhand’ (hypocrisy) and ‘nautanki’ (theatrics) to gain sympathy from the masses ahead of key assembly polls.
"She is trying to gain sympathy from people by making excuses of attack, conspiracy, attempt of murder etc. It is laughable that she claims there was no police with her. It is an attempt to win the election with excuses", he said while talking to a news agency. "If there is a conspiracy, call CBI, NIA, CID or form an SIT. Why don't you (Mamata Banerjee) do it? Making an excuse of conspiracy, you want to get public sympathy. Where were the police, CCTV? Take out CCTV footage and the truth will come out", he added.
Meanwhile BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said that it is quite possible that she met with an accident. So, to claim that she was deliberately pushed is not acceptable. "She has a lot of security personnel guarding her round the clock," he added.
In its tweet MP Swapan Das Gupta shared a video of eyewitness that records that Mamata Banerjee's injury stems from an accident. It was her car door that injured her and that no body attacked her. Describing how the CM suffered injury, the eyewitness said that Mamata Banerjee was greeting the crowd with folded hands from her car.
The car was moving, and she had kept the door of the car open to greet the people waiting by the roadside. At Birulia Bazar in Nandigram, the open door of the moving car hit a pillar, causing the door to shut forcefully. The door hit the leg of Mamata Banerjee, causing the injury, said the local to the news agency who claimed to have witnessed the entire incident.
Mamata Banerjee was rushed to Kolkata by road for treatment, where she was admitted at the Smt Sucheta Kriplani Hospital located in the Lady Hardinge Medical College in Kolkata. A green corridor was created for the entire route so that her convoy can reach Kolkata as soon as possible without any interruptions.
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