Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister and Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee suffered deep head injuries after she fell down at her residence in Kalighat of south Kolkata on Thursday evening. She was rushed to SSKM Hospital and has been admitted to a cabin at Woodburn Block.
A medical board has been set up by the hospital authorities for her treatment. A specialist doctor from Apollo Gleneagles Hospital also joined the team of doctors. The CM underwent stitches on her forehead and MRI. She was later seen taken away on a wheelchair with a bandage on her head.
Ms Banerjee, with three stitches on forehead and another on nose, returned home late at night ignoring the doctors' advice. Later SSKM director Dr Monimoy Bandopadhyay in a medical bulletin said that "some push from behind" forced the CM to fall. He however did not reveal who pushed Ms Banerjee. Kajari Banerjee, a family member of the TMC chief, echoed him saying, "I have heard there was a push from behind..."
According to TMC insiders, Ms Banerjee was walking inside her residence on Harish Chatterjee Street after returning home from an event in memory of her late cabinet colleague and mentor Subrata Mukherjee in Gariahat. Her MP nephew Abhishek Banerjee and other family members were also present then.
Sources claimed that when the CM was walking around, she suddenly fell down while her forehead hit the edge of a furniture set in the room. Mr Banerjee later brought her to SSKM.
