Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar suffers a fall, taken to Basirhat hospital

Kolkata, February 14

West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar was injured on Wednesday after losing balance and falling on a car’s bonnet — on which he was standing — while addressing reporters in North 24 Parganas district, following which he was taken to a hospital, a party official said.

Majumdar, who was prevented from going to restive Sandeshkhali by the district administration on Tuesday, put up at a guest house in Taki late in the night following a dharna in front of the Basirhat police district SP’s office.

The state BJP president, who made attempts to go to Sandeshkhali again on Wednesday morning, was prevented by the police from leaving the area. Majumdar, also a Lok Sabha MP from the state’s Balurghat constituency, was addressing reporters standing on the car’s bonnet, when he slipped and fell on it, the party official said. The incident happened at Taki on the banks of Ichamati river along the India-Bangladesh border.

He was taken to Basirhat sub-divisional hospital following the incident, he said.

Meanwhile, protests persisted in Sandeshkhali for the seventh consecutive day on Wednesday, with women taking to the streets, demanding the arrest of TMC leader Sheikh Shajahan and his alleged “gang”. The accusations against Shajahan and his aides include forcefully capturing land and sexually harassing women.