Pranab visits ailing Mamata

Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee visited ailing Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee at her Kalighat residence on Saturday and expressd the hope that she would recover soon and join Parliament at the fag end of the monsoon session. Rubbishing media reports that he had been asked to see the Trinamool Congress supremo at the direction of the Congress high command or the Prime Minister,Mukherjee said: “I came to see her at my personal initiative.”