Kolkata

Narendra Modi

rally

West Bengal

#Watch: Several injured after a portion of tent collapsed during Prime Minister @narendramodi’s rally in West Benga… https://t.co/nabLwl1K2n — Mumbai Mirror (@MumbaiMirror) 1531732159000

#WATCH Moments after a portion of tent in PM Narendra Modi’s rally in Midnapore collapsed during his speech today.… https://t.co/M2aSskvG9H — ANI (@ANI) 1531730612000

#WATCH PM Narendra Modi tears up while talking to one of the injured people in hospital. Several were injured after… https://t.co/YG9yJ8svkk — ANI (@ANI) 1531732562000

#WATCH One of the injured, in hospital requests PM Modi for an autograph, PM obliges. Several were injured after a… https://t.co/Al6bHgwPRa — ANI (@ANI) 1531733407000

Mamata Banerjee

: At least 90 people, mostly women, were injured as the pandal fell during Prime Minister’s farmer’sin’s Midnapore town on Monday. While officials had earlier pegged the number of injured at 20, they have now confirmed that the toll is actually at 90.Following heavy rains from the morning, the pandal collapsed and people got injured in the middle of the rally. They were rushed to the state government-run Midnapore hospital in the ambulance, which was kept in reserve for the Prime Minister.Panchanan Kundu, Principal of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital told Mumbai Mirror: "Altogether 90 people were admitted at the hospital. Among them 66 were male while 24 were female. Out of the total, 14 were discharged after first aid while 66 are still admitted. Condition of two people, Kishore Das and Sampad Ghosh, is serious."Prime Minister Narendra Modi was addressing a farmer welfare rally in West Midnapore District’s Midnapore town today, which is part of BJP’s nationwide Farmer Welfare campaign.According to the local people, a huge assembly of nearly one lakh people and heavy rains led to such an accident.Expressing his empathy for the people who braved heavy rains, the accident and waterlogging in the rally ground, Modi said that “this was the real strength of the people of his party and people of Bengal. He will always remember this”. After the rally, the Prime Minister went to the hospital to see the people who were injured in the incident.“I have noticed a new strength in people of Bengal here in this ground. The people are so disciplined, I could not have imagined it anywhere else. This is the people’s courage and they did not move an inch even after such an accident,” Narendra Modi said in an appreciative note.Urging Bengal Chief Ministerto envisage the strength of people, he said, “Didi, please see the power of people, they are so disciplined and have a lot of courage. Weather could not deter them, the accident could not move them. How will your torture will affect them? I amazed to see that these people are pillars of strength. After the state government’s opposition, despite the pandal falling and people getting drenched amid so much water logging, no one moved from their position.”