Jamnagar: Poonam Madam was today injured after she fell into a drain while meeting slum dwellers of Jalaram locality during a demolition drive by civic authorities here. A lawmaker in Gujarat was visiting a slum in her constituency of Jamnagar city, about 330 kilometres from the state capital of Gandhinagar.

41-year-old Madam fell into an 8-feet deep drain when a thin concrete crust covering it cracked under her feet and suffered a gash on her head.

She had been asked for help by residents of the slum whose illegal homes were to be demolished.

Poonamben was standing on a slab of cement covering a large open drain, nearly 10 feet deep, when the makeshift bridge caved in. She has been injured on her head, said the police.