Mamata Banerjee ‘attacked’ in Nandigram: Key developments | India News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee was allegedly attacked in Purba Medinipur’s Nandigram on Wednesday. Banerjee was rushed to Kolkata as she sustained leg injuries.
Here is a look at the key developments following the incident.
Here is a look at the key developments following the incident.
- The Election Commission has sought reports from West Bengal chief secretary and its special observers in the state Ajay Nayak and Vivek Dubey. The reports have been sought latest by 5 pm on Friday.
- A dishevelled-looking Banerjee, sitting in the front seat of the SUV, spoke to the media just before her convoy left for Kolkata from Nandigram.
“There were about four-five men who did it… See how it is swelling up…” she said while pointing at her legs. She also alleged that it was a “conspiracy”.
“Of course it is a conspiracy… There were no security men around me,” the Trinamool chief added when asked if it was a planned attack on her.
- Following the incident in Birulia Anchal, sources said that Banerjee was immediately taken to her temporary residence at Reapara, before heading back to Kolkata. Mamata was scheduled to return to Kolkata on Thursday but was immediately rushed back to the state capital.
- Union minister Piyush Goyal said following the incident in Nandigram said that the TMC president is “perturbed”.
“I think I’ll refrain from commenting. All of you’re intelligent and have covered (reported on) such things all your life. Our didi is perturbed. These are signs of a defeated party and a defeated candidate. She’ll lose from Nandigram and there’ll be a change in West Bengal,” he said. - West Bengal BJP vice president Arjun Singh alleged that Mamata staged the incident to garner sympathy.
“Is it Taliban that her convoy was attacked? A huge police force accompanies her. Who can get near her? Four IPS officers are her security in charge and must be suspended. Attackers don’t appear out of anywhere, they’ve to be nabbed. She did drama for sympathy,” Singh said. - Trinamool MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, who was in Nandigram at the time of the incident, issued a statement.
“After a widespread response from the people of Nandigram Block-1 yesterday (Tuesday), Mamata Banerjee visited several places of Nandigram Block II after filing nomination at Haldia. She offered Puja in one after another temple.
“There was a massive response from people everywhere. At about 6.15 pm, when she was about to leave Birulia Anchal after performing puja in a temple, a few unknown persons pushed her to the car and forcibly shut the door, as a result of which she sustained injuries in her left leg and also suffered severe pain in the waist. She, thereafter, left for Kolkata to get proper treatment,” ray said. - Earlier, after filing her papers for the Nandigram Assembly constituency seat, Banerjee took part in the two-km-long roadshow at Haldia. She was accompanied by party state president Subrata Bakshi.
- The Trinamool president 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. A pitched battle was being expected from the word go.
(With inputs from agencies)
