Summary:
Kolkata, Nov 27 (PTI) BJP leader Raju Banerjee courted controversy on Saturday by saying that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may campaign for the coming civic poll in the state in a stretcher faking injury after failing to counter in a fair manner the saffron camp"s spirited challenge during the canvassing.
The senior BJP leader alleged in a public meeting in the city that the Trinamool Congress supremo had resorted to "unfair means" by campaigning from a wheelchair in the last assembly poll faking an injury to her leg when she was unable to counter the the saffron party politically.
"You (Banerjee) confined yourself in a wheelchair when you failed to fight the BJP politically.
You resorted to falsehood to counter BJP in the canvassing for the state assembly poll.
You will face an equally combative BJP who believes in fighting against you in a fierce, democratic and peaceful manner during the coming civic polls and you will again resort to falsehood.
"But even if you move around lying on a stretcher to earn voters" sympathy this time, rest assured you won"t get votes for your candidates on the ground of sympathy any more," said Banerjee, who had unsuccessfully contested against TMC senior leaer Madan Mitra in the April-May assembly poll in Kamarhati, said.