WestBengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was allegedly attacked in PurbaMedinipur's Nandigram on Wednesday. Banerjee was rushed to Kolkata as shesustained leg injuries.
"There were about four five men who did it... See how it is swellingup..." she said while pointing at her legs. She also alleged that it was a"conspiracy".
"Of course it is a conspiracy... There was no security men aroundme," the Trinamool supremo added, when asked if it was a planned attack onher.
Trinamool MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, who was here, as the Chief Minister'sscheduled visit was to continue till Thursday earlier, issued a statement.
"After widespread response from the people of Nandigram Block-1 yesterday(Tuesday), Mamata Banerjee visited several places of Nandigram Block II afterfiling nomination at Haldia. She offered Puja in one after another temple.
"There was a massive response from people everywhere. At about 6.15 p.m.,when she was about to leave Birulia Anchal after performing puja in a temple, afew unknown persons pushed her to the car and forcibly shut the door, as aresult of which she sustained injuries in her left leg and also suffered severepain in the waist. She, thereafter, left for Kolkata to get propertreatment," ray said.
She was scheduled to return to Kolkata on Thursday but was immediately rushedback to the state capital.
A dishevelled-looking Banerjee, sitting in the front seat of the SUV, spoke tothe media just before her convoy left for Kolkata.
Earlier, after filing her papers for the Nandigram Assembly constituency seat,Banerjee took part in the two-km-long roadshow at Haldia. She was accompaniedby party state president Subrata Bakshi.
Following the incident in Birulia Anchal, sources said that Banerjee wasimmediately taken to her temporary residence at Reapara, before heading back toKolkata.
The Trinamool supremo had been contesting polls from her home seat Bhawaniporeconstituency, but this time chose Nandigram, a stronghold of Trinamoolturn-coat Suvendu Adhikari who joined the BJP last year. A pitched battle wasbeing expected from the word go.