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Mamata Banerjee slips and falls while boarding helicopter | VIDEO
Weeks after she suffered grievous injury at her Kolkata residence, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee fell while boarding a helicopter in Durgapur.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee slipped and fell Saturday while taking her seat after boarding a helicopter in Durgapur. The chief minister was helped by her security personnel, reported ANI. She continued with her onward travel to Asansol to address an election rally.
Visuals shared by news agency ANI showed Mamata Banerjee trying to take a seat after boarding the helicopter but, in the process, losing her balance.
"The CM fell inside the helicopter after losing her balance while she was trying to sit. She is fine," a senior officer, who was accompanying Mamata Banerjee, told PTI.
On March 14, the 69-year-old Trinamool Congress supremo fell inside her Kalighat residence in Kolkata and suffered a grievous injury on her forehead and nose. She had to be admitted to hospital for a few hours.
Banerjee's brother, Kartik Banerjee, told a Bengali news channel that the TMC leader had a cerebral concussion and had a sharp cut on her forehead and nose which was bleeding profusely.
Read: BJP questions how Mamata Banerjee fell in her house after doctor's clarification
The hospital director, Manimoy Bandyopadhyay, initially said that Mamata Banerjee had "a fall within the vicinity of her home due to some push from behind".
This comment sparked large-scale confusion and speculations over the cause of her fall.
Bandyopadhyay later clarified that all he meant was that the chief minister may have felt "a sensation of push".
"This is a sensation of pushing from behind which led to the fall (of CM Banerjee). Our job is to treat and we have done that. There was a misinterpretation of what I said last evening," Bandyopadhyay said.
At that time, senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari triggered a controversy after he apparently made a mockery of Banerjee's injury.
Addressing a rally in West Bengal's Khejuri, Adhikari, without naming anyone said, "TMC's pressure has gone down and it is falling. The fall of the TMC has just begun from the top, it will percolate to the grassroots levels."
His remarks drew sharp condemnation from the ruling TMC, which said the remarks reflect the anti-women mindset of the BJP.
"Such remarks against the only woman chief minister of the country reflect the anti-women mindset of the BJP. We condemn such remarks and demand an apology," West Bengal Women and Child Development Minister Shashi Panja said.
With PTI inputs
