Siliguri (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday visited BJP MP Khagen Murmu at a private hospital in Siliguri, where he was undergoing treatment after being assaulted during a visit to flood and landslide-affected areas in the northern part of the state a day ago.

The CM's visit comes a day after a political storm erupted over the assault of two BJP leaders – Maldaha Uttar MP Khagen Murmu and Siliguri MLA Sankar Ghosh – at Nagrakarta in Jalpaiguri district in flood-ravaged north Bengal.

Banerjee spent a few minutes speaking to the injured MP, his wife, and son, before consulting the team of doctors attending to him.

According to sources, Banerjee enquired in details about the MP's condition, including his injuries and medications.

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