KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday visited Bharatiya Janata Party leader Khagen Murmu who was admitted to a Siliguri hospital after being assaulted by a mob in Nagrakata during a visit to flood-hit areas in north Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee meets BJP MP Khagen Murmu, who is undergoing treatment after being assaulted in Nagarkata, at a private hospital in Siliguri (AITC via PTI) “I talked to the doctors and his family members. He is much better now. The doctors are treating him cautiously since he is a diabetic,” Banerjee told reporters after calling on Murmu, the BJP’s North Malda Lok Sabha MP, at a private hospital.
Banerjee said government doctors at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital could also come to the private hospital for the MP’s treatment if needed.
Banerjee’s hospital visit comes amid continuing back-and-forth between the BJP and the West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) over the attack on Murmu and Siliguri town MLA Sankar Ghosh when they were visiting Nagrakata to assess the damage due to the heavy rainfall.
At least 27 people were killed in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts on Sunday after rains triggered floods and massive landslides.
Murmu, an MP from Malda district, was assaulted, and stones were thrown on his car by some villagers at Nagrakata in Jalpaiguri district, where he went with Ghosh to assess the damage. The BJP won the Nagrakata assembly seat in 2021.
Murmu, Ghosh and other BJP leaders accused the TMC of plotting the attack.
Union minister for parliamentary affairs Kiren Rijiju flew down from Delhi on Tuesday to visit the affected areas and check on Murmu.
Rijiju told reporters in Siliguri that the Lok Sabha speaker had sought a report on the attack from the Union home ministry. “The state government should submit its report immediately. How can a Lok Sabha member be attacked like this? We will move a privilege motion,” Rijiju told reporters in Siliguri.
“This hooliganism cannot be allowed,” he added.
West Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose also rushed to Siliguri. “This is the degeneration of democracy. We cannot allow law and order to collapse,” Bose said at the hospital.
TMC leaders have rejected claims that
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