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News Desk: Mamata Banerjee, in a video message from a hospital in Kolkata a day after alleging an attack at Nandigram, said she was injured when a crowd pressed into her but did not repeat allegations of a conspiracy. “I appeal to everyone to be calm and maintain restraint, and to not do anything that will inconvenience people,” said the Bengal Chief Minister in a video message from her hospital bed today.
Her leg in a cast, Mamata Banerjee spoke about her injuries and said she would have to resume her campaign for the Bengal election in a wheelchair but noticeably did not refer to her charge that four or five people had attacked her.
“It is true that I was badly hurt. I was injured in my arm, leg. There were bone injuries… ligament injuries. I suffered chest pain… I was greeting people from the car bonnet and the crowd pressed into me, the entire pressure was on me. My leg was crushed. I was given medicines and taken to Kolkata..my treatment is on,” she said.
“I will be back in two-three days. My leg injury will remain a problem but I will manage. I won’t let it affect my meetings but I will have to move around in a wheelchair, for that I will need your support,” said the Chief Minister, who has signed up for one of her toughest election contests in Nandigram, where her BJP rival for the state polls is her former trusted aide Suvendu Adhikari.
