{"id":88236,"date":"2021-03-16T12:42:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T07:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=88236"},"modified":"2021-03-16T12:42:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T07:12:21","slug":"morphed-image-of-cm-mamata-banerjee-falsely-claimed-she-stood-up-from-wheelchair-and-faking-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/morphed-image-of-cm-mamata-banerjee-falsely-claimed-she-stood-up-from-wheelchair-and-faking-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Morphed image shared to claim Mamata Banerjee faked her injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/elections\/west-bengal-assembly\/west-bengal-assembly-polls-mamata-banerjee-suffers-leg-injury-while-campaigning-in-nandigram-alleges-conspiracy\/article34037176.ece\">March 10<\/a>, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee suffered injuries to her left leg while campaigning in Nandigram and was rushed to Kolkata for treatment. CM Banerjee said that she was pushed by four or five people while BJP leader Arjun Singh claimed she is <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/elections\/injured-in-nandigram-mamata-claims-conspiracy-7222682\/\">lying for sympathy<\/a>. On <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/mamata-banerjee-to-be-discharged-says-kolkata-hospital-2-days-after-she-was-injured-while-campaigning-in-bengal-2389526\">March 12<\/a>, she left the hospital in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>Several Twitter users have posted an image of CM Banerjee walking away from a wheelchair thus, insinuating she faked her injury.<\/p>\n<p>The image was shared\u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/LnrX6\">English<\/a> (&#8220;From Plaster to Bandage to Walking. What a Actor.!!!&#8221;), <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/LnrX6\">Hindi<\/a> (&#8220;\u0914\u0930 \u0907\u0938\u0924\u0930\u0939 \u0936\u093e\u092e \u0939\u094b\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u094b\u0924\u0947 \u092e\u094b\u092e\u0924\u093e \u0924\u093e\u0908 \u0935\u094d\u0939\u0940\u0932\u091a\u0947\u092f\u0930 \u0938\u0947 \u0909\u0920\u0915\u0930 \u091a\u0932 \u092a\u0921\u0940\u0964\u0938\u0902\u0918\u0940 \u092d\u0915\u094d\u0924\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u093e \u0916\u094c\u092b\u093c\u0964&#8221;) and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/R63Je\">Telugu<\/a> (&#8220;#\u0c2c\u0c46\u0c02\u0c17\u0c3e\u0c32\u0c4d\u200c\u0c32\u0c4b \u0c2e\u0c3f\u0c30\u0c3e\u0c15\u0c3f\u0c32\u0c4d.. \u0c09\u0c28\u0c4d\u0c28\u0c1f\u0c4d\u0c1f\u0c41\u0c02\u0c21\u0c3f \u0c35\u0c40\u0c32\u0c4d \u0c1b\u0c48\u0c30\u0c4d\u200c\u0c32\u0c4b\u0c02\u0c1a\u0c3f \u0c32\u0c47\u0c1a\u0c3f\u0c28 \u0c2e\u0c2e\u0c24\u0c3e \u0c2c\u0c46\u0c28\u0c30\u0c4d\u0c1c\u0c40..&#8221;) captions.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-88236 gallery-columns-1 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\/morphed-image-of-cm-mamata-banerjee-falsely-claimed-she-stood-up-from-wheelchair-and-faking-injury\/screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16-32-02\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"531\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16.32.02.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16.32.02.jpg 531w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16.32.02-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/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\/morphed-image-of-cm-mamata-banerjee-falsely-claimed-she-stood-up-from-wheelchair-and-faking-injury\/screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16-31-36\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"531\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16.31.36.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16.31.36.jpg 531w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16.31.36-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/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\/morphed-image-of-cm-mamata-banerjee-falsely-claimed-she-stood-up-from-wheelchair-and-faking-injury\/screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16-31-09\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16.31.09.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16.31.09.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16.31.09-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>Morphed image<\/h4>\n<p>The viral photograph has been manufactured using CM Banerjee&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/india\/2012\/06\/16\/congress-manmohan-pranab-mamata-president-india\/\">2012 image<\/a> available on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/india\/2012\/06\/16\/congress-manmohan-pranab-mamata-president-india\/\">Reuters<\/a> blog. According to the photo credits, it was clicked by B Mathur on June 13, 2012. This was superimposed on CM Banerjee&#8217;s recent photograph in a wheelchair published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/mamata-banerjee-leads-procession-in-wheelchair-on-nandigram-diwas-101615713958121.html\">Hindustan Times<\/a> on March 14.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16.46.48.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16.46.48.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16.46.48-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16.46.48-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-15-at-16.46.48-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The collage below shows the two images used to create the morphed image.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88255 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/In-story-chart-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1824\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/In-story-chart-5.jpg 1824w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/In-story-chart-5-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/In-story-chart-5-1024x323.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/In-story-chart-5-768x242.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/In-story-chart-5-1536x484.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1824px) 100vw, 1824px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On March 14, ABP News reported that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee begun her <em>padayatra<\/em> in a wheelchair. The video can be watched below.<\/p>\n<p>[embedyt] https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=94Ycvjk0Ebw[\/embedyt]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Election Commission has concluded on Sunday [March 14] that the incident in Nandigram which caused injuries to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee was an accident and not a planned attack, according to sources in the poll body,&#8221; reported <a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/politics\/injuries-to-mamata-banerjee-caused-by-an-accident-poll-observers-report\">The Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee suffered a leg injury, a morphed image was shared on social media with the false claim that she got up from her wheelchair and walked after her hospital release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 10, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee suffered injuries to her left leg while campaigning in Nandigram and was rushed to Kolkata for treatment. 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