Chatterjee further said the party has asked activists and supporters across the state to exercise restraint and not organise protests against the attack.
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s assets worth Rs 16.72 lakh
By PTI
NANDIGRAM: Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has declared that her net worth is Rs 16.72 lakh.Banerjee, who is contesting the Nandigram assembly constituency in Purba Medinipur district, doesn’t own any vehicle or property, according to her self-sworn affidavit filed before the Election Commission of India.
The 66-year-old leader’s total movable assets are worth Rs 16.72 lakh.
Such assets owned by her were worth Rs 30.45 lakh before the assembly election in 2016. Her income for the year 2019-20 was Rs 10,34,370.
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Cash in hand with the chief minister is Rs 69,255 while she has a total bank balance of Rs 13.53 lakh which includes Rs 1.51 lakh in her election expenditure account.
She also has a deposit with the National Saving Certificate (NSC) of Rs 18,490. The affidavit showed that her tax deducted at source (TDS) receivable is Rs 1.85 lakh in the financial year 2019- 20.
Banerjee owns nine grams of jewellery worth Rs 43,837.
A voter of Bhabanipur assembly constituency in Kolkata, she received a royalty of Rs 930 in 2019-20.
Banerjee has a number of books to her credit.
The chief minister has no criminal case pending against her.
She is an MA from the University of Calcutta and also holds an LLB degree.
Banerjee on Wednesday filed her nomination papers from the Nandigram constituency, where she is pitted against her protege-turned-adversary Suvendu Adhikary of the BJP and Minakshi Mukherjee of the CPI(M).
Voting will be held in Nandigram on April 1 in the second of the eight-phase polling.
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Mamata will lose by 50,000 votes, says BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya
By PTI
KHANDWA: BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya on Thursday claimed that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be defeated from Nandigram in the coming Assembly polls.She would have lost from Bhabanipur, her current constituency, and therefore decided to contest from Nandigram this time, he said.
“But she would lose from there too by a margin of 50,000 votes,” Vijayvargiya, the BJP general secretary in- charge for the poll-bound state, told reporters at Shahpur in Burhanpur district of Madhya Pradesh.
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He was here to visit the family of the BJP’s Khandwa MP Nand Kumar Singh Chauhan who died recently.
The BJP leader also dismissed opinion polls predicting his party’s defeat.
The party won 18 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal when pollsters had given it only eight, he said.
On the basis of the party’s performance in the Lok Sabha elections, it should win 250 seats, he claimed.
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West Bengal reports 241 new COVID-19 cases, 2 fresh deaths
By PTI
KOLKATA: West Bengal’s COVID-19 tally rose to 5,77,267 as 241 more people tested positive for the infection while two fresh fatalities pushed the death toll to 10,283, the health department said on Wednesday.The two deaths were due to the comorbidities where COVID-19 was incidental, it said.
The state now has 3,127 active COVID-19 cases, while 5,63,857 people have recovered from the disease.
The COVID-19 recovery rate in the state is 97.68 per cent.
The state has so far tested 87,48,775 samples for COVID-19 including 18,272 samples in the last 24 hours, it said.
Meanwhile, 1,44,322 people received the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, the health department added.
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Mamata undergoes X-ray, MRI; doctors say closely monitoring condition
By PTI
KOLKATA: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee underwent X-ray imaging on Wednesday night at the SSKM Hospital in Kolkata where she was taken to following the alleged attack in Nandigram during an election campaign, doctors said.A portable X-ray machine was used for the imaging after she was taken to the special cabin number 12.5 at the Woodburn Ward of the state-run hospital, they said.
The chief minister was then taken to the Bangur Institute of Neurosciences in the same complex for an MRI, a senior doctor said.
“X-ray has been conducted on the chief minister’s left leg. We also wanted to conduct an MRI. After calculating the degree of her injury, the next step of treatment will be decided,” the doctor, who is part of the team treating Banerjee, told PTI.
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The chief minister might be taken back to the special ward after the MRI is over, he said.
“We need to monitor her condition closely before deciding on discharging her,” the doctor said.
The state government constituted a team of five senior doctors to treat Banerjee who was allegedly attacked in Nandigram in the Purba Medinipur district during a poll campaign in the evening.
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A cardiologist, an endocrinologist, a general surgery doctor, an orthopedist and a medicine doctor are part of the team.
Banerjee alleged that she was pushed by four-five men, following which she fell flat on her face.
She said that her left leg got swollen because of the injury and she was feeling feverish, besides having chest pain.
The chief minister also has severe pain in the waist, her party TMC said.
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‘Few pushed the door, leg has swollen’: Mamata Banerjee injured in Nandigram, taken to hospital
By PTI
NANDIGRAM: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged on Wednesday that she was attacked by “four-five men” who manhandled her during the election campaign in Nandigram, because of which she was injured in the left leg.The incident happened in the evening when Banerjee was outside a temple in the Reyapara area.
“I was standing outside my car with the door open. I was going to a temple there to offer my prayers. Few people came around my car and pushed the door. The door hit my leg,” she said.
Banerjee alleged that she was pushed by four-five men while she was trying to get into the car, following which she fell flat on her face.
The chief minister said that her leg got swollen because of the injury and she was feeling feverish, besides having chest pain.
Pointing to her leg, she told reporters, “See how it has swollen.”
“Some people deliberately did it. Of course, it is a conspiracy. There were no local policemen around me, neither the district police superintendent was present at the spot,” she alleged.
The chief minister also has severe pain in the waist, TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, who is at present in Nandigram, said.
Banerjee was seen being carried by her security personnel to the backseat of her SUV from the front seat, which she usually occupies during travel, as she was in pain.
A white cloth was also wrapped around her injured leg.
The incident triggered a security scare as the chief minister gets Z-plus protection.
Banerjee, who was supposed to stay the night in Nandigram in the Purba Medinipur district, was rushed back to Kolkata, around 130 km away, through a green corridor.
#WATCH West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee shifted to the back seat of her vehicle after she claimed she was pushed by a few people and suffered a leg injury in Nandigram pic.twitter.com/49wTQ5ye5S
— ANI (@ANI) March 10, 2021She was taken to the state-run SSKM Hospital for treatment.
The state government constituted a team of five senior doctors to treat Banerjee, Health Department sources said.
In the team were a cardiologist, an endocrinologist, a general surgeon, an orthopedist and a general physician, they said.
Banerjee was taken to the 12.5 special cabin in the Woodburn Block of the hospital on a stretcher as her convoy reached the hospital, amid a huge presence of her supporters who raised slogans against the BJP.
“We will stabilise her first. An X-ray will be conducted on her leg. We need to find out the degree of her injury and then the course of our treatment will be decided,” a doctor at the hospital told PTI.
The chief minister’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, a TMC MP, and state ministers Partha Chatterjee, Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee were present at the hospital.
State Health Secretary NS Nigam was also present.
Banerjee was in Nandigram over the last two days to campaign for the upcoming elections.
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Earlier in the day, she filed her nominations in Haldia.
Banerjee is pitted from the seat against her former aide Suvendu Adhikari, who switched over to the BJP a few months back.
The TMC leadership claimed that the attack was a well-planned conspiracy to “remove her” from the poll campaign.
“Many people don’t want her to campaign for the elections. They want her to be removed from their path. That is why she has been attacked by goons. People will give a befitting reply,” state minister and senior TMC leader Subrata Mukherjee said.
The BJP alleged that Banerjee was trying to turn a “simple accident” into a “pre-planned conspiracy”, and demanded a CBI investigation.
“It can happen that she met with an accident but to claim that she was deliberately pushed is not acceptable. She has a lot of security personnel guarding her round the clock,” BJP’s national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said.
“Such tactics to gain sympathy are unacceptable. I think the matter should be handed over to the CBI for an investigation,” he added.
State Congress president Adhir Chowdhury said such “tactics to gain sympathy” would not work this time.
“Mamata Banerjee is the police minister of the state and if she is not safe then she should immediately resign from the post,” he said.
CPI(M) candidate from Nandigram Minakshi Mukherjee wished her a speedy recovery, but asserted that “people would not be fooled this time”.
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With Mamata in hospital, TMC supporters protest across Bengal
By PTI
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress supporters took to the streets across West Bengal, protesting against the alleged attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram on Wednesday evening.TMC supporters raised slogans against the BJP and protested at various places, including Sovabazar and Chetla in Kolkata, and Bally in Howrah.
Protests were also held at Asansol in Paschim Bardhaman, Jalpaiguri, North 24 Parganas, Bankura and Paschim Medinipur.
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“We will continue the protests as our leader was mercilessly attacked in Nandigram. Until now, TMC supporters were being attacked, but today they dared to attack the chief minister,” a TMC supporter at the Chetla protest site said.
In some areas, TMC workers also burnt tyres and blocked roads.
A large number of TMC supporters gathered at the state-run SSKM Hospital in Kolkata as Banerjee was rushed to the medical facility from Nandigram, following the attack.
The TMC supporters raised “go-back” slogans as Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar reached the hospital to visit Banerjee.
Similar slogans were also raised when Dhankhar left the hospital after enquiring about the health of the chief minister.
The governor spent more than half-an-hour at the hospital.
Banerjee, who was campaigning in Nandigram in the Purba Medinipur district over the last two days for the upcoming assembly elections, was allegedly attacked in the evening.
Banerjee claimed that she was attacked by four-five men at Birulia, leading to a severe injury on her left leg, which has swollen.
The opposition parties, including the BJP, CPI(M) and Congress, claimed that it was a “tactic to gain sympathy” ahead of the elections.
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‘Attack’ on Mamata: Theatrics for public sympathy, says Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
By PTI
NEW DELHI: Hours after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that she was injured after being attacked by a few men, the Congress’ West Bengal unit chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday accused her of resorting to “hypocrisy and theatrics” to gain public sympathy ahead of the assembly polls.Chowdhury, who is also the Congress’ leader in Lok Sabha, said Banerjee is “feeling the heat” in Nandigram, from where she is contesting this time, and is thus resorting to “stunts and drama”.
She has sensed her impending loss in Nandigram, thus there is a need to resort to such tactics, he said, adding it is unbelievable that the chief minister would get hurt even when the state police had “laid siege” on Nandigram during her visit.
The Trinamool Congress supremo alleged that she was injured in the leg after being allegedly pushed by unidentified people near a temple at Reyapara area during campaigning at Nandigram, where the BJP has pitted her protege-turned-adversary Suvendu Adhikari against her.
Banerjee alleged that she was pushed by four to five men while she was trying to get into the car, following which fell flat on her face.
“This is clearly political hypocrisy, which she is known for. She is feeling the political heat ahead of the elections as she fears that she might lose. She is doing these theatrics and drama to gain the sympathy of the public,” Chowdhury told reporters.
He said it is strange that at the time she was allegedly attacked, no policeman was around her.
“No one can believe that there is no police with Bengal’s ‘police mantri’. When the police have laid siege in Nandigram, some youth pushing the chief minister is unbelievable.
“Imagine the law-and-order situation for the common people of Bengal when the state’s ‘police mantri’ says she was attacked,” the West Bengal Congress chief said.
Besides being the chief minister, Mamata Banerjee also holds charge of the Home and Hill Affairs department.
This indicates that Mamata Banerjee’s position is weakening and she has resorted to theatrics, Chowdhury said, adding, “She is trying to play with the emotions of people.”
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‘I am here to serve all: Mamata Banerjee prepares tea at roadside stall in Nandigram; visits temple, mausoleum
By PTI
NANDIGRAM: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday visited a temple and a mausoleum in Nandigram, where she has crossed swords with her former close aide-turned-bete noire Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP, and said she “does not believe in divisive politics”.The TMC supremo, after addressing a party workers’ meeting, paid her reverence at the local mazar, popular among members of the minority community here, and then offered prayers at Maa chandi temple nearby.
As she entered the temple, women, who lined up next to the shrine, blew conch shells to greet her.
At the mausoleum, too, she was extended a warm welcome.
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Next, Banerjee visited a roadside stall, where she prepared tea for the customers, much to the astonishment of the shop owner.
“I am here to serve all, no matter which section they belong to. People are with me, 100 per cent of them. On Shivratri (Thursday), I will be offering puja at a temple, which is close to my accommodation in Nandigram, interact with people there and then file my nomination, she said.
The CM, while talking to reporters, also said several welfare projects have been launched by her government in Nandigram over the past 10 years, “as is evident from the metalled roads, streetlights and bustling marketplaces, and more such work will be undertaken in the days to come”.
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Farmer leaders to visit poll-bound West Bengal, Assam
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farmer unions protesting against the Centre’s three agri laws, on Tuesday said it would send a team of leaders to the poll-bound West Bengal and Assam in a bid to appeal to voters not to vote for the “anti-farmer” BJP.Farmer leader Darshan Pal said in a statement that the visit will be spread over three days starting from March 12.
Pal told PTI that the team will have 4-5 people including him and Yogendra Yadav.
The final details will be known on Wednesday, Kavitha Kuruganti, a member of SKM, said.
Assembly elections in West Bengal and Assam will begin on March 27.
The SKM also said the number of farmers who have “sacrificed their lives” in the agitation has crossed 280 on Tuesday.
“Today, a 50-year-old farmer Radheshyam from Jind district of Haryana got martyred at Tikri Border,” it said.
The farmer body also condemned an “attack by ABVP” on labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur at Delhi University on Monday, where she was to address a women’s day programme.