Bengal Meeting Polls: Mamata Banerjee alleged she was pushed by 4 or 5 folks towards her automotive.
New Delhi/Kolkata:
A day after Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged an attack by which she suffered accidents to her leg and neck, the BJP stated it might complain to the Election Fee that she’s “spreading lies about assault for politics”.
Within the newest twist within the Bengal election marketing campaign, a delegation of BJP leaders will meet Election Fee officers in Kolkata to complain towards the Chief Minister’s accusation and search an investigation. “We are going to ask for a excessive stage probe into the assault, the way it occurred, who was accountable…We can even demand that native law enforcement officials be suspended since this occurred on their watch,” Bengal BJP vice chairman Pratap Banerjee advised NDTV.
A delegation of Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress additionally plans to fulfill Election Fee officers to file their very own criticism concerning the alleged assault.
Mamata Banerjee, 66, stated final night she was attacked whereas she was campaigning in Nandigam after submitting her nomination papers for the Bengal election.
She alleged that she was pushed by 4 or 5 folks towards her automotive and had the door shut on her at a time when there have been no police personnel round her. Trying pale, in ache, and pointing to her leg, she stated, “See how it’s swelling up”.
Requested if it was a deliberate assault, she stated, “After all it’s a conspiracy… there have been no policemen round me”. She was taken to a hospital in Kolkata, 130 km away, after the incident.
This morning, Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, a Trinamool Congress MP, shared an image of her in hospital with a message concentrating on the BJP. “BJP brace yourselves to see the facility of individuals of BENGAL on Sunday, Could 2nd. Prepare,” he tweeted.
.@BJP4Bengal Brace yourselves to see the facility of individuals of BENGAL on Sunday, Could 2nd.
Get READY!!! pic.twitter.com/dg6bw1TxiU
— Abhishek Banerjee (@abhishekaitc) March 10, 2021
The BJP, which had blamed the Trinamool Congress after its chief JP Nadda’s convoy was attacked in December, accused the Chief Minister of pulling a stunt in sheer desperation after realising she may lose the election.
“Not one eye witness appears to corroborate Mamata Banerjee’s ‘assault’ model. Folks of Nandigram are upset and offended at her for blaming them and bringing disrepute,” tweeted Bengal BJP, posting what it stated had been witness accounts from the spot.
Not one eye witness appears to corroborate Mamata Banerjee’s ‘assault’ model. Folks of Nandigram are upset and offended at her for blaming them and bringing disrepute.
Clearly she is nervous about her prospects in Nandigram and has now misplaced confidence, if any, of the folks too… pic.twitter.com/vBFFjbt1UF
— BJP Bengal (@BJP4Bengal) March 11, 2021
Referring to the picture tweeted by Abhishek Banerjee, Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh stated: “It must be seen whether or not it was a real incident or a well-scripted drama. The folks of the state have seen such drama earlier too. Those that know they might be voted out of energy can stoop to any stage to get votes.”
On the spot the place Mamata Banerjee was harm, a damaged pole has develop into the main focus of investigators and the media.
Many BJP leaders stated in accordance with witnesses, her automotive hit the pole. However the Trinamool maintains the Chief Minister, who has Z-plus safety, was surrounded and pushed, which led to her accidents.
The Election Fee has requested the Bengal administration for a report by Friday.
The contemporary spherical of allegations underscores the acrimony within the Mamata Banerjee versus BJP struggle that’s the theme of the Bengal election beginning March 27.
Nandigram, the place the Chief Minister is pitted towards her one-time trusted lieutenant turned BJP rival Suvendu Adhikari, is the blockbuster battle of those polls.
Mr Adhikari gained the Nandigram seat in 2016 as a Trinamool candidate and has been calling Mamata Banerjee an “outsider”. Combating that label, the Chief Minister has been campaigning extensively within the city that catapulted her occasion to energy in 2011 following an agitation towards farmland acquisition.
The outcomes of elections in Bengal, three extra states and the Union Territory of Puducherry shall be declared on Could 2.
The incident got here a day after the Election Fee changed the Director Common of Bengal Police, Mr Virender, amid allegations of violence voiced by the BJP. An IPS officer of the 1987 batch, P Nirajnayan, has been named the brand new police chief.
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