“My pain is not greater than the suffering of people as democracy is being trampled through dictatorship,” she said.
Wheelchair-bound West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, making the 300-odd km journey to Purulia today, declared, “People’s pain is greater than my pain”. The TMC supremo, while referring to her injury sustained last week in Nandigram, said, “Some thought I wouldn’t be able to step out with this broken leg”.
“My pain is not greater than the suffering of people as democracy is being trampled through dictatorship,” she said. “I will continue to roam around Bengal on this wheelchair. If I go on bed rest, who will reach out to the people of Bengal?” Ms Banerjee said.
“I was injured in an incident and it’s my good luck that I survived. I have a plaster and I cannot walk,” she added.
Addressing the crowd in Purulia, where the BJP had won massively in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Ms Banerjee said: “The BJP won here because of lies. They are selling off everything.”
Mamata Banerjee, holding the BJP-led Centre responsible for the fuel price hike, said, “We are engaged in development and BJP is increasing prices of fuel and gas, there is no kerosene also”.
“Our government has announced widow pension of ₹ 1000. We have distributed caste certificates under Duarey Sarkar. We have built Raghunath Murmu campus,” Ms Banerjee added.
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