Mamata Banerjee leaves hospital on a wheelchair two days after being injured

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been discharged from the hospital on Friday, two days after she was admitted. The doctor attending her said that she has responded well to the treatment. For the uninformed, the Trinamool Congress leader was injured in state's Nandigram days before Assem bly elections.

"Medical board felt she should be in the hospital for 48 hours more for observation. She requested that she should be discharged. Heeding to her request she is being discharged with medical advice," doctors treating her at a hospital in Kolkata said in a statement.

"The Chief Minister has responded to treatment. The plaster slab was opened today and injury was examined. The haematoma (blood suffusion) has diminished considerably. Ankle injury has shown much sign of improvement," they added.

On Wednesday, the leader went to Nandigram to file her election paper. She was at a market when she was at a market greeting people while standing on footboard of her car when the crowd pressed against the door which may have slammed into her leg, causing her sustainable injuries.

While she earlier called it a conspiracy, she did not retariate her claims after being discharged.

"I appeal to everyone to be calm and maintain restraint, and to not do anything that will inconvenience people," she said.

"It is true that I was badly hurt. I was injured in my arm, leg. There were bone injuries... ligament injuries. I suffered chest pain... I was greeting people from the car bonnet and the crowd pressed into me, the entire pressure was on me. My leg was crushed. I was given medicines and taken to Kolkata," she said.