A day after Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged an attack in which she suffered injuries to her leg and neck, the BJP said it would complain to the Election Commission that she's "spreading lies about attack for politics".
In the latest twist in the Bengal election campaign, a delegation of BJP leaders will meet Election Commission officials in Kolkata to complain against the Chief Minister's accusation and seek an investigation.
A delegation of Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress also plans to meet Election Commission officers to file their own complaint about the alleged attack.
Mamata Banerjee, 66, said last evening she was attacked while she was campaigning in Nandigam after filing her nomination papers for the Bengal election.
She alleged that she was pushed by four or five people against her car and had the door shut on her at a time when there were no police personnel around her. Looking pale, in pain, and pointing to her leg, she said, "See how it is swelling up".
Asked if it was a planned attack, she said, "Of course it is a conspiracy... there were no policemen around me". She was taken to a hospital in Kolkata, 130 km away, after the incident.
This morning, Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee, a Trinamool Congress MP, shared an image of her in hospital with a message targeting the BJP. "BJP brace yourselves to see the power of people of BENGAL on Sunday, May 2nd. Get ready," he tweeted.
The BJP, which had blamed the Trinamool Congress after its chief JP Nadda's convoy was attacked in December, accused the Chief Minister of pulling a stunt in sheer desperation after realising she could lose the election.