West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was admitted to Kolkata's SSKM Hospital after sustaining an injury on her leg after allegedly being attacked by a few men in Nandigram, was discharged on Friday.
According to media reports, the doctors at the hospital, in a statement, said the medical board felt that the chief minister should be in the hospital for 48 hours more for observation, but she requested that she be discharged. " Heeding to her request she is being discharged with medical advice," the statement from the hospital said.
The doctors said Banerjee has been discharged with appropriate instructions and added that she has been advised to review her condition after seven days.
The chief minister was seen leaving the hospital on a wheelchair.
Banerjee greeted several party activists gathered outside the hospital, and left for her Kalighat residence in her vehicle. Her nephew and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee, party colleagues and state minister Firhad Hakim were present at the hospital.
On Thursday, a senior doctor at the state-run hospital had said, "The chief minister has severe bony injuries in her left ankle and foot, besides injuries in right shoulder, forearm and neck. She is stable now but is having severe pain in the injured leg."
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A six-member medical team was constituted to to treat Banerjee after she was admitted to the hospital.
Meanwhile, a BJP delegation met poll panel officials hours after a six-member group of the TMC met the Election Commission, demanding a high-level probe into the alleged attack on the chief minister. The BJP demanded an independent inquiry into the incident.
The saffron party also demanded that special observers be appointed for the Nandigram assembly seat from where Banerjee is contesting against her protégé-turned-adversary the BJP's Suvendu Adhikari.
Earlier, the TMC met the full EC team, including Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora, for over an hour and submitted a memorandum to it, highlighting how BJP leaders in West Bengal had threatened the chief minister through tweets and other remarks.
—With PTI inputs