DNA Special: Attack or accident? Analysis of Mamata Banerjee s leg injury
Mamata Banerjee sustained injuries when she was waving at the crowd by standing on the footboard of the car with the door open on March 10.
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Updated: Mar 12, 2021, 06:09 AM IST
The sympathy card is being played rampantly in the West Bengal Assembly elections with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleging that she had been attacked in Nandigram, which led her to the hospital with a fractured leg. Now, Mamata will resume her campaign in a wheelchair from March 13.
Sympathy and politics go hand in hand and West Bengal is no different. Twitter is divided over whether it was an accident or an attack.
The certificates issued against Covid-19 vaccination in the poll-bound states of West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, and Kerala, and the Union Territory of Puducherry, will no longer carry Prime Minister Narendra Modi's photo. This decision has been taken by the Union Health Ministry under the direction of the Election Commission after the Trinamool Congress pointed out that it was a violation of the Model Code of Conduct.
West Bengal Assembly Election 2021: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee suffers injuries in Nandigram - Security guards lifted the 66-year-old and placed her on the backseat of a car.
Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2021: Kamal Haasan unveils his party's first list of 70 candidates - Haasan said that the DMK was portraying itself wrongly as the saviour of Tamils and the AIADMK was accusing the DMK of being a dynasty party.
West Bengal Assembly Election 2021: Five more TMC MLAs join BJP
TMC MLAs Sonali Guha, Dipendu Biswas, Rabindranath Bhattacharya, Sital Kumar Sardar and Jatu Lahiri joined the BJP. Photo: ANI
Updated: Mar 9, 2021, 12:23 AM IST
In a significant development ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, five sitting Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLAs and a party candidate who was allotted a seat from Habibpur for upcoming polls joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday.
TMC MLAs Sonali Guha, Dipendu Biswas, Rabindranath Bhattacharya, Sital Kumar Sardar and Jatu Lahiri joined the BJP in the presence of West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh, party vice president Mukul Roy and party leader Suvendu Adhikari.