Mamata Banerjee was discharged from the hospital on March 12.
New Delhi:
Four days after alleged attack in Nandigram following which she was hospitalised, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will make her first public appearance today afternoon, addressing a huge rally in state capital Kolkata, her party said this morning.
The West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will conduct a roadshow on a wheelchair from Gandhi Murti to Hazra, the Trinamool said. She will address a public rally at Hazra this afternoon. The party said that it will not release its election manifesto today.
It will be her first public appearance after she was allegedly attacked by some people in Nandigram earlier this week.
On Wednesday, after filing her election papers for Nandigram, she was at a market greeting people while standing on the footboard of her car when the crowd pressed against her door, which crushed her leg and hips, causing her injuries. Later, she was brought to Kolkata’s SSKM Hospital by road from Nandigram.
Ms Banerjee sustained “severe bone injuries” on her left foot and ankle as well as bruises and injuries on her shoulder, forearm and neck, according to the report of her initial medical examination.
After initially alleging an intentional attack, Ms Banerjee, in a subsequent video message from the hospital in Kolkata on Thursday, said she was injured when a crowd surged around her car and pressed into her but did not repeat allegations of conspiracy.
The Trinamool Congress, however, wrote to the Election Commission alleging “a deep-rooted conspiracy to take the life” of its chief and linking it to the abrupt removal of the Bengal police chief a day before, for which it has blamed the BJP.
Calling it a “gruesome attack” on the Chief Minister, the party said an attempt was made on her life “within 24 hours of the removal of the Bengal police chief” by the Election Commission without the state government being consulted. The party alleged a “nexus” between the BJP’s complaints against the sacked police chief and the police being absent at the time of the incident.
The Chief Minister was discharged from the hospital on March 12.
“Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has responded well to the treatment. The six-member board has re-examined her health condition. We have opened the plaster cast. Fresh plaster has been applied. She has been discharged with appropriate instructions, after her repeated requests. She has been advised to revisit after seven days,” the medical board of the SSKM Hospital in Kolkata told reporters.