Bengal Assembly Polls: Mamata Banerjee alleged that 4 or 5 people pushed her against her car.
New Delhi / Kolkata:
A day after Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee denounced an attack in which she suffered leg and neck injuries, the BJP said it would complain to the Election Commission that it is “spreading lies about political attacks.” .
In the latest twist of Bengal’s election campaign, a delegation of BJP leaders will meet with Election Commission officials in Calcutta to complain about the Chief Minister’s accusation and seek an investigation. “We will request a high-level investigation into the attack, how it happened, who was responsible … We will also demand that the local police officers be suspended as this happened under their command,” BJP Bengal Vice President told NDTV , Pratap Banerjee.
A delegation from the Trinamool Congress from Mamata Banerjee also plans to meet with Electoral Commission officials to present their own complaint about the alleged attack.
Mamata Banerjee, 66, said last night that she was attacked while campaigning in Nandigam after presenting her nomination papers for the Bengal elections.
She alleged that four or five people pushed her against her car and closed the door on her at a time when there were no police personnel around her. Pale, sore and pointing to her leg, she said, “Look how it swells.”
When asked if it was a planned attack, he said: “Of course it’s a conspiracy … there were no police around me.” She was taken to a hospital in Calcutta, 130 km away, after the incident.
This morning, Mamata Banerjee’s nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, a deputy from the Trinamool Congress, shared a picture of her at the hospital with a message addressed to the BJP. “BJP get ready to see the power of the people of BENGAL on Sunday May 2nd. Get ready,” he tweeted.
.@ BJP4Bengala Get ready to see the power of the people of BENGAL on Sunday May 2nd.
Get prepared!!! pic.twitter.com/dg6bw1TxiU
– Abhishek Banerjee (@abhishekaitc) March 10, 2021
The BJP, which had blamed the Trinamool Congress after its boss JP Nadda’s convoy was attacked in December, accused the chief minister of pulling a stunt in utter desperation after realizing she might lose the election. .
“No eyewitnesses seem to corroborate Mamata Banerjee’s version of ‘attack’. Nandigram people are upset and angry with her for blaming and discrediting them,” Bengal BJP tweeted, posting what she said were eyewitness accounts from the scene.
No eyewitness appears to corroborate Mamata Banerjee’s version of “attack”. The people of Nandigram are upset and angry at her for blaming and discrediting her.
She is clearly nervous about her prospects in Nandigram and has now lost the trust, if any, of the people as well … pic.twitter.com/vBFFjbt1UF
– BJP Bengal (@ BJP4Bengal) March 11, 2021
Referring to the image tweeted by Abhishek Banerjee, Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh said: “It is necessary to see if it was a real incident or a well-written drama. The people of the state have also seen that drama before. Those in the know they would be removed from power and can be lowered to any level to get votes. “
At the place where Mamata Banerjee was injured, a broken pole has become the focus of investigators and the media.
Many BJP leaders said that according to witnesses, their car hit the pole. But Trinamool maintains that the chief minister, who has Z-plus security, was surrounded and pushed, causing her injuries.
The Election Commission has asked the Bengal administration for a report by Friday.
The new round of accusations underscores the acrimony in the Mamata Banerjee fight against BJP that is the subject of the Bengal elections that begin on March 27.
Nandigram, where the chief minister faces off against her trusted former lieutenant turned BJP rival Suvendu Adhikari, is the highest-grossing battle of these polls.
Adhikari won the Nandigram seat in 2016 as a Trinamool candidate and has been calling Mamata Banerjee an “outsider.” Fighting against that label, the chief minister has been campaigning extensively in the city that catapulted her party to power in 2011 following an agitation against the acquisition of agricultural land.
Election results in Bengal, three more states and the Union Territory of Puducherry will be declared on May 2.
The incident came a day after the Election Commission replaced the Director General of the Bengal Police, Mr. Virender, amid allegations of violence voiced by the BJP. An IPS officer from the 1987 group, P. Nirajnayan, has been appointed the new chief of police.
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