Mamata slams Amit Shah over victim card remarks

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday took umbrage over senior BJP leader Amit Shah’s apparent remarks about the injury she suffered during the 2021 Assembly polls and asked him to check the medical report, which detailed the extent of the damage to her leg.

While releasing a political “chargesheet” against the TMC Government a day ago, Shah had accused the ruling party’s supremo of having “always played the politics of the victim card”.

“Sometimes she talks about her injury; sometimes she abuses the Election Commission. But the people of West Bengal now understand her victim card politics very well,” he had said. On Sunday, Banerjee, while addressing an election rally in Purulia district’s Manbazar, said, “They are saying that I roam around with a bandage during the polls. I have returned from the brink of death repeatedly. Go and get the report of the doctor.”

“Did you deliberately injure my leg during the 2021 elections? I campaigned in a wheelchair. Are you planning to kill me?” she said, sharpening her attack against the BJP. In her address, a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah released a political ‘chargesheet’ against the TMC Government, Banerjee said that he should be chargesheeted “for his past deeds”. She, however, did not name Shah.