Mamata Banerjee urged her followers to keep the peace in a video message today
New Delhi / Kolkata:
Mamata Banerjee urged her followers to keep the peace in a video message today from a hospital in Kolkata, a day after alleging an attack in which she had suffered injuries. “I call on everyone to remain calm and restrained, and do not do anything that makes people uncomfortable,” Bengal’s chief minister said in a video message from her hospital bed.
With her leg in a cast, Mamata Banerjee spoke about her injuries and said she would have to resume her campaign for the Bengal elections in a wheelchair, but avoided repeating accusations of an attack and a conspiracy she had made last night in Nandigram.
“It is true that I injured my arm, my leg … there were injuries to the ligaments. I suffered pain in my chest … I was waving to people from the car and my leg was crushed by the door. They gave me medicine and they took me to Kolkata … my treatment is underway, “he said.
“I will be back in two or three days. My leg injury will still be a problem, but I will manage. I will not let it affect my meetings, but I will have to move in a wheelchair, for that I will need your support.” “said the chief minister, who has entered one of her toughest electoral races in Nandigram, where her rival for the BJP in state elections is her former trusted aide, Suvendu Adhikari.
Although she did not refer to her accusations of being attacked in Nandigram and pushed by four or five people, her Trinamool Congress party wrote to the Electoral Commission today alleging “a deep-seated conspiracy to take the life” of her boss and link him to the abrupt dismissal of the Bengal police chief a day earlier, for which he has blamed the BJP.
Calling it a “gruesome attack” against the Chief Minister, the Trinamool Congress said the Election Commission attempted to kill her “within 24 hours of the removal of the Bengal police chief” without consulting the state government. The party alleged a “nexus” between the BJP’s complaints against the dismissed police chief and the absence of the police at the time of the incident.
The BJP, which has been accusing Ms Banerjee of faking an attack to gain public sympathy in a losing battle, also urged the Election Commission to order a high-level investigation into Ms Banerjee’s allegations and to publish video footage of the incident to establish what actually happened. .
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