The Election Commission (EC) has found the report submitted by the West Bengal government regarding the alleged attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram to be 'sketchy'.
EC sources said that the poll panel has asked Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay to make the report more elaborate.
“The report submitted by the West Bengal Government is lacking in details such as how the incident took place and who was behind it. We have asked the chief secretary to add further details to it,” a senior EC official said.
He also said that the report filed by the state government mentions a huge crowd at the spot where the incident occurred but does not mention the “four to five people”, who the chief minister alleged attacked her.
No clear footage
“The report mentions that there was no clear video footage of the incident which took place in the Birulia Bazar area of Nandigram on March 10,” the EC official said.
Meanwhile, the poll body will take a call on Sunday on the reports submitted by the chief secretary and two special poll observers on the injuries sustained by Mamata, sources said.
The chief minister sustained injuries after she was allegedly attacked by unidentified people while campaigning in Nandigram after filing her nomination from the Assembly constituency on March 10. She was rushed to the government-run SSKM Hospital on the same night.
The TMC supremo was rushed to the government-run SSKM Hospital on the same night. Mamata was discharged on Friday. The doctors attending to her said that she was released due to her repeated requests and that she should abide by certain restrictions in movement.
Mamata had said that she will “campaign on a wheelchair if needed.”