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Make Mamata's SSKM treatment details public, demands West Bengal BJP
Noting that the Election Commission has dismissed the allegation of a conspiracy, the party urged the chief electoral officer to put the medical records of Banerjee's treatment in the public domain.
West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday requested the chief electoral officer to make chief minister Mamata Banerjee's treatment history at the SSKM hospital public. Banerjee was admitted to Kolkata's SSKM hospital after she was injured in Nandigram on March 10.
"It is necessary that truth be brought out before the public so that staged incidents don't repeat to deceive masses and manipulate their voting choices", the party requested in the letter.
Claiming that the Trinamool Congress(TMC) has used the purported injuries to the chief minister for political mileage, the party said the allegations on the BJP party workers defy the model code of conduct.
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In its letter, the BJP said that a multi-speciality medical board was promptly constituted by the SSKM Hospital to treat Banerjee but the health bulletins after that had been opaque. The diagnosis of the injuries has not been put in the public domain by the hospital. "Considering unverified media reports on the seriousness of her injury, it is still unclear as to whether the chief minister was discharged after she has been found medically fit within two days or whether it has been under coercion, from some individual or entity," the letter read, saying it is baffling how Banerjee was deemed medically fit to be discharged within two days after suffering from a fracture.
Noting that the Election Commission has dismissed the allegation of a conspiracy, the party urged the chief electoral officer to put the medical records of Banerjee's treatment in the public domain, adding that it is important to avoid the misuse of the alleged injury by the chief minister and the party in power as an attempt to manipulate electors through misinformation to gain sympathy votes.
Mamata Banerjee on Sunday participated in a rally in Kolkata in a wheelchair to campaign for the elections. "I have faced a lot of attacks in my life but I have never surrendered before anyone. I will never bow my head. An injured tiger gets more dangerous," PTI reported her as saying on Sunday.
The West Bengal assembly elections for the 294 seats will be contested in eight phases beginning from March 27 and ending on April 29.
