TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday staged a 3.5-hour-long dharna in the heart of the city to protest against the Election Commission’s “unconstitutional” decision to bar her from campaigning for 24 hours.
Mamata, who is still confined to a wheelchair owing to the injuries she sustained last month, arrived at Mayo road in Kolkata around 11.40 am and began her sit-in next to a Mahatma Gandhi’s statue at the venue.
A few minutes before 12.00 hrs Ms Banerjee arrived at the venue sat alone on wheelchair, with a table and some books piled on it. Occasionally, she was seen painting at the venue and holding up her works for those gathered at the venue to see. Three hours after the dharna, Ms Banerjee left the site about 3 pm.
Hundreds of Trinamool Congress supporters, including women had arrived at the venue and were silently waiting with the Chief Minister. There was also a large number of deployments of police personnel around the protest venue.
