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Banerjee has been attending Trinamool Congress rallies in a wheelchair since her discharge from hospital. The TMC has called the incident a deep rooted conspiracy and blamed the EC and BJP for it.
Amit Shah on Mamata Banerjee s injury: What about the pain of slain BJP workers kin?
Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday reminded West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of deaths of political workers in the state. He was responding for the first time to TMC s allegations of an attack on the chief minister in Nandigram that left her leg in a cast.