Mamata meets injured BJP MP; Centre told to file note

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday met injured Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha member Khagen Murmu at a hospital in north Bengal's Siliguri even as the Lok Sabha secretariat sought a factual note in three days from the Union home ministry on Monday's attack on Murmu.

- HT Correspondent

"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 while leaving the private hospital.

"Our doctors at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital will come here if required," she added.

At least 27 people were killed in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts on Sunday following heavy rainfall that triggered floods and massive landslides. Murmu, an MP from Malda district, was allegedly assaulted and some villagers pelted stones at his car at the Nagrakata community block in Jalpaiguri when he went there with Siliguri BJP MLA Shankar Ghosh to assess the damage.