“We condemn the style the BJP is insulting our beloved CM,” state minister Shashi Panja stated (File)
Kolkata: A purported video clip the place Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is seen sitting on a wheelchair and transferring her plastered leg forwards and backwards has gone viral on social media, giving her rivals a chance to assert that she was taking part in up her accidents to win sympathy.
The TMC, nevertheless, has condemned the “method through which the celebration supremo has been insulted”, and stated the rival BJP ought to learn to respect ladies.
PTI couldn’t in dependently confirm the authenticity of the video.
BJP spokesperson Pronoy Roy, who shared the 30-second clip on Fb, stated Ms Banerjee ought to “cease placing up a drama over her accidents” to garner public help within the midst of the meeting elections.
“This video seize which has surfaced on networking web sites has not been filmed by anyone from the BJP. It was recorded by some TMC celebration staff. We wish her to get again to regular life quickly, we additionally pray for that… however she should cease placing up this drama by transferring round in a wheelchair.
So @MamataOfficial ji claims that her leg is damaged however this video says a special story…
Whom to imagine?@KailashOnline@blsanthoshpic.twitter.com/3kEyQcjDhQ
— S. Vishnu Vardhan Reddy (@SVishnuReddy) April 2, 2021
“If she was exercising her leg by shaking it then I counsel that she begin strolling as that can assist her recuperate quicker.”
Taking a jibe on the chief minister, Rahul Sinha, a senior chief of the saffron celebration, stated the TMC supremo’s bandage won’t purchase her votes.
“The extra she is shedding confidence the larger her bandage will get. Persons are not shopping for this… She should have forgotten which leg is injured, and shook the incorrect foot. She has already misplaced the elections, the bandage will not have the ability to save her from imminent defeat,” Mr Sinha stated.
Taking sturdy exception to the remarks made by BJP, state minister Shashi Panja stated the saffron camp, by elevating suspicion over Ms Banerjee’s accidents, has not simply insulted her however all the ladies of Bengal.
“We condemn the style the BJP is insulting our beloved CM. They don’t seem to be simply insulting our CM, but in addition the opposite ladies of the state. We urge them to point out correct respect to the ladies of this state,” Mr Panja stated.
Echoing her, former BJP chief Yashwant Sinha, who joined the TMC lately, stated if anyone was churning out lies, it was the BJP and never the TMC.
“Are they (BJP leaders) attempting to say that a complete lot of individuals concerned (in treating her) together with eminent docs are mendacity? It is solely the BJP which is able to talking such lies. I’ve little doubt in my thoughts that they’re those behind this (propaganda),” Mr Sinha, who had served because the finance minister within the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cupboard, acknowledged.
TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh additionally hit out on the BJP and stated that the individuals of Bengal will give the BJP a befitting reply for its “soiled politics”.
“In the event that they (BJP leaders) are spending a lot time looking at Didi‘s ft, they may as effectively fall on her ft. We condemn such politics that targets a girl who’s holding campaigns sitting on a wheelchair, after being attacked. This exhibits that the BJP has misplaced its plot,” Mr Ghosh stated.
Ms Banerjee sustained accidents on her left leg, waist, shoulder and neck as she fell down after allegedly being pushed by criminals in Nandigram on March 10.
