New Delhi, Mar 14 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday wished his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee a speedy recovery after she suffered an injury to her forehead and was admitted to a hospital.

The 69-year-old leader had a fall inside her Kalighat home in south Kolkata after she returned after attending a programme, her family said.

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"Shocked to see this. Pray for your speedy recovery Didi. God bless you," Kejriwal said in a post on X.

TMC national general secretary and Mamata's nephew Abhishek Banerjee got her admitted to the hospital, according to party sources.

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"She fell somewhere inside the home and was immediately shifted to the hospital. She was bleeding from the forehead and stitches were required," her brother Kartik Banerjee told a Bengali news channel.

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