Didi kin attacker shifted to top hospital

Debasish Acharya, the youth from East Midnapore who was severely beaten up by Trinamool Congress workers on December 4 for slapping party MP and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek, was admitted to state-run hospital SSKM in Kolkata on Thursday evening.

This comes a day after Acharya’s parents met Abhishek and apologised on behalf of their son. According to sources, the decision to shift Acharya to the leading government hospital was taken on the orders from the chief minister.

“When she got to know that Debasish’s parents wanted to meet Abhishek and apologise, she immediately asked Abhishek to arrange for a meeting. Following that, the chief minister ordered government officials to have Debasish shifted from the hospital at Tamluk (in East Midnapore) where he was admitted after being beaten up and brought down to Kolkata,” a government official said.

Debasish, who the police claim to be an RSS activist, and an active member of the BJP-affiliated students’ body Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, had got on to the stage on the pretext of clicking photos with his phone at Chandipur in East Midnapore on Sunday while Abhishek was addressing a rally and slapped him twice.

The Trinamool leaders and workers stopped him and severely beat him up. “The chief minister got to know from Abhishek that during their meeting, Debasish’s parents had expressed their wish to have the youth treated at SSKM hospital. Following this, he was shifted to Kolkata,” a government official said.

While authorities at the hospital in Kolkata had initially admitted him to the Curzon ward, a general ward with no cabins, following instructions from the state secretariat, Debasish was shifted to a cabin at the rheumatology ward.