{"id":188763,"date":"2024-03-18T12:15:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T06:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=188763"},"modified":"2024-03-18T13:46:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T08:16:48","slug":"mamata-banerjees-injury-old-photo-shared-in-a-collage-to-mock-bengal-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mamata-banerjees-injury-old-photo-shared-in-a-collage-to-mock-bengal-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s injury: Old photo shared in a collage to mock Bengal CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is flooded with a picture collage of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/mamata-banerjee-suffers-major-injury-in-accident-taken-to-hospital-says-tmc-101710427913045.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suffered an injury<\/a> on her forehead after she had an episode of fall within the premises of her home. The collage depicts two different images of Banerjee&#8217;s head injury. In one image, Banerjee&#8217;s wound, which is bleeding, is seen in the middle of her forehead, while in the second picture, the wound is on the left side of her forehead and a band-aid has been applied on it. Users have mocked the Bengal chief minister while sharing the collage suggesting that she faked her injury.<\/p>\n<p>A verified user on X (formerly Twitter), @BhowmikShiv, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BhowmikShiv\/status\/1768696780345298970?t=eHIpebtQJXM30_gra-Yo0Q&amp;s=08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared<\/a> the collage with the caption, &#8220;Spot the difference.&#8221; The post received over 4 Lakh views and 10,000 likes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-188844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Untitled-design-10-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"703\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Untitled-design-10-1.jpg 703w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Untitled-design-10-1-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bengal BJP leader and former Governor of Tripura Tathagata Roy (@tathagata2) amplified the image on X. (<a href=\"https:\/\/perma.cc\/H795-JLNQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-188842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1107\" height=\"1381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010343.jpg 1107w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010343-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010343-821x1024.jpg 821w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010343-768x958.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1107px) 100vw, 1107px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Others who shared the image with captions mocking Mamata Banerjee included <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FollowAkshay1\/status\/1768889840488050816?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FollowAkshay1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CAChirag\/status\/1768936566007923130?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CAChirag<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/perma.cc\/PW4Q-FQ7H\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@anilshukla_1986<\/a> and others.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-188763 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mamata-banerjees-injury-old-photo-shared-in-a-collage-to-mock-bengal-cm\/screenshot-2024-03-18-011113\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1230\" height=\"1231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-011113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-011113.jpg 1230w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-011113-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-011113-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-011113-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-011113-768x769.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1230px) 100vw, 1230px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mamata-banerjees-injury-old-photo-shared-in-a-collage-to-mock-bengal-cm\/screenshot-2024-03-18-011027\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1252\" height=\"1302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-011027.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-011027.jpg 1252w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-011027-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-011027-985x1024.jpg 985w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-011027-768x799.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1252px) 100vw, 1252px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mamata-banerjees-injury-old-photo-shared-in-a-collage-to-mock-bengal-cm\/screenshot-2024-03-18-010048\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1264\" height=\"1113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010048.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010048.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010048-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010048-1024x902.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010048-768x676.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1264px) 100vw, 1264px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>Fact Check<\/h4>\n<p>The first photo in the collage was released by Trinamool Congress&#8217;s official X handle at 8.10 pm on March 14 after Mamata was injured. It shows her bleeding from a deep cut in the middle of the forehead.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-188841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1261\" height=\"1156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010138.jpg 1261w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010138-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010138-1024x939.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-18-010138-768x704.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1261px) 100vw, 1261px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Media outlets picked up the image and used it in their reports. (Examples: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/mamata-banerjee-suffers-major-injury-in-accident-taken-to-hospital-says-tmc-101710427913045.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hindustan Times<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/trinamool-chief-mamata-banerjee-injured-fell-off-treadmill-at-home-sources-2514915-2024-03-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India Today<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstoday.in\/latest\/politics\/story\/mamata-banerjee-suffers-head-injury-in-mishap-in-kolkata-taken-to-hospital-tmc-421533-2024-03-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Today<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/west-bengal\/kolkata-mamata-banerjee-suffers-head-injury-trinamool-congress-latest-update-west-bengal-chief-minister-2024-03-14-921538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India TV News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>We did a Google reverse image search of the other image in the collage which depicts a band-aid on the left side of Mamata&#8217;s forehead. This led us to a Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=690160656619669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>, titled, &#8216;Press conference in front of Raj Bhavan&#8217; posted by Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s official Facebook page on January 24. In the video, we can see that Banerjee has an injury on the left side of her forehead.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-family: Montserrat, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MamataBanerjeeOfficial\/videos\/690160656619669\/\">Press conference in front of Raj Bhavan | \u09b0\u09be\u099c\u09ad\u09ac\u09a8\u09c7\u09b0 \u09ac\u09be\u0987\u09b0\u09c7 \u09b8\u09be\u0982\u09ac\u09be\u09a6\u09bf\u0995\u09a6\u09c7\u09b0 \u09ae\u09c1\u0996\u09cb\u09ae\u09c1\u0996\u09bf<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MamataBanerjeeOfficial\/videos\/690160656619669\/\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MamataBanerjeeOfficial\/videos\/690160656619669\/\"><p>Press conference in front of Raj Bhavan | \u09b0\u09be\u099c\u09ad\u09ac\u09a8\u09c7\u09b0 \u09ac\u09be\u0987\u09b0\u09c7 \u09b8\u09be\u0982\u09ac\u09be\u09a6\u09bf\u0995\u09a6\u09c7\u09b0 \u09ae\u09c1\u0996\u09cb\u09ae\u09c1\u0996\u09bf<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MamataBanerjeeOfficial\">Mamata Banerjee<\/a> on Wednesday, 24 January 2024<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the video, the Bengal chief minister talks about her injury which she received when a speeding car had come in the way of her convoy and her driver applied sudden brake. This led to her head banging against the dashboard. She also says she suffered a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>We found multiple reports on the accident.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/mamata-banerjee-suffers-minor-head-injury-as-car-meets-with-accident-on-way-on-kolkata-2493024-2024-01-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An India Today report <\/a>titled, &#8220;Mamata Banerjee injured in a car accident, says &#8216;I wouldn\u2019t have survived if&#8230;&#8221; was published on January 24, 2024 featured an image where Banerjee has a wound on the left side of her forehead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"edpara\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-188775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-16-at-22.33.55.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"887\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-16-at-22.33.55.jpeg 887w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-16-at-22.33.55-300x222.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-16-at-22.33.55-768x569.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On January 24, ANI also posted the second image on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t have survived if&#8230;,&#8221; Mamata Banerjee on car accident<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ANI<\/a> Story | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6jW6Com1kN\">https:\/\/t.co\/6jW6Com1kN<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MamataBanerjee?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MamataBanerjee<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CarAccident?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CarAccident<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u4M6yXNF8z\">pic.twitter.com\/u4M6yXNF8z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANI Digital (@ani_digital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ani_digital\/status\/1750218651255402899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A comparison of the second image in the viral collage with the pictures used by India Today and ANI in their January 2024 reports shows that the former has been taken from the same day. It is not related to Mamata&#8217;s recent forehead injury which occurred on March 14, 2024.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-188763 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mamata-banerjees-injury-old-photo-shared-in-a-collage-to-mock-bengal-cm\/a-clip-from-the-viral-video-58\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/A-CLIP-FROM-THE-VIRAL-VIDEO-58.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/A-CLIP-FROM-THE-VIRAL-VIDEO-58.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/A-CLIP-FROM-THE-VIRAL-VIDEO-58-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/A-CLIP-FROM-THE-VIRAL-VIDEO-58-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/A-CLIP-FROM-THE-VIRAL-VIDEO-58-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/A-CLIP-FROM-THE-VIRAL-VIDEO-58-1536x1229.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mamata-banerjees-injury-old-photo-shared-in-a-collage-to-mock-bengal-cm\/a-clip-from-the-viral-video-59\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/A-CLIP-FROM-THE-VIRAL-VIDEO-59.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/A-CLIP-FROM-THE-VIRAL-VIDEO-59.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/A-CLIP-FROM-THE-VIRAL-VIDEO-59-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/A-CLIP-FROM-THE-VIRAL-VIDEO-59-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/A-CLIP-FROM-THE-VIRAL-VIDEO-59-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/03\/A-CLIP-FROM-THE-VIRAL-VIDEO-59-1536x1229.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>To sum up, the two images of Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee in the viral photo collage are from different occasions. The bleeding photo is from March 14, 2024 and the image where she has a band-aid on one side of her forehead is from January this year. The collage is being falsely used to mock the politician who is now convalescing at home.<\/p>\n<p><em>Abira Das is an intern at Alt News.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is flooded with a picture collage of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who recently suffered an injury on her forehead after she had an episode of fall within the premises of her home. The collage depicts two different images of Banerjee&#8217;s head injury. 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