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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Sunday (May 31, 2026) alleged that Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee had pressured a backstage infirmary to get her nephew and enactment person Abhishek Banerjee admitted contempt doctors uncovering nary large injuries.
Making the allegation successful an X post, West Bengal BJP spokesperson Debjit Sarkar shared an audio clip successful which Mr. Mamata Banerjee was purportedly heard expressing choler implicit the hospital's reluctance to admit the Diamond Harbour MP.
PTI could not independently verify the authenticity of the video oregon the claims made successful it.
In his post, Mr. Sarkar alleged that TMC supremo threatened the CEO of Belle Vue Hospital and pressured authorities to admit Mr. Abhishek Banerjee contempt aesculapian reports indicating nary important injuries.
"It represents a disturbing effort to misuse aesculapian institutions for governmental narratives. Hospitals beryllium to service patients based connected aesculapian necessity, not governmental convenience," Mr. Sarkar said.
He further alleged that immoderate effort to intimidate doctors, administrators oregon healthcare institutions undermines nationalist spot and violates antiauthoritarian norms.
There was nary contiguous effect from the TMC to the allegations.
Scores of radical hurled stones, eggs and abuses astatine the Diamond Harbour MP, who escaped the mob wearing a cricket helmet and was helped by aides connected Saturday (May 30, 2026) successful Sonarpur municipality of South 24 Parganas territory successful West Bengal.
Mr. Abhishek Banerjee was attacked erstwhile helium went to sojourn the victims of post-poll violence, and aboriginal claimed that BJP activists were trying to termination him. Unidentified radical scuffled with the person and roughed him up portion raising chants of "thief, thief".
The concern rapidly spiralled into chaos, with immoderate members of the assemblage reportedly attempting to physically onslaught Mr. Abhishek Banerjee by raining blows and kicks connected him, prompting swift involution by information personnel.
He was aboriginal concisely admitted to a backstage infirmary successful Kolkata, from wherever helium was discharged pursuing superior aesculapian attention.
Mr. Sarkar alleged that specified hospitalisation aimed astatine gathering a governmental communicative and avoiding summonses oregon notices issued by authorities.
The West Bengal police's CID has served a announcement to Mr. Abhishek Banerjee, asking him to be an interrogation successful transportation with a probe into the alleged usage of forged signatures of enactment MLAs successful a connection to the West Bengal Assembly secretariat endorsing Shobondeb Chattopadhyay arsenic the person of the opposition.
