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Mamata accepts protocol to receive Modi in Bengal on May 9

by IBNS 04 May 2015, 12:01 am

#Mamata accepts protocol to receive Modi in Bengal on May 9

Kolkata, May 4 (IBNS) In a change from her 'daggers drawn' stance against Narendra Modi, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee will cut short her visit to districts to receive the Prime Minister when he arrives Kolkata on May 9 on a two-day visit.

According to official schedules, Banerjee will not only greet the PM at the airport, but will also hold a meeting with him and also be present for the two programmes that the PM is scheduled to attend on May 9 and 10.
 
Banerjee's Trinamool Congress has been playing a hostile opposition in Parliament ever since the last assembly polls in the state in which the BJP gained a considerable foothold. The hotility further accentuated with the CBI crackdown on several bigwigs of the party on the Saradha scam issue which ultimately witnessed a yawning difference building up between Mukul Roy, once number 2 in TMC and Banerjee.
 
 
The West Bengal chief minister had even skipped a number of statutory meetings in Delhi where she would have to meet the PM as part of a normal exercise in federal structure. 
 
She met the PM for the first time since he came to office on her last visit to the capital during the first half of parliament's budget session.
 
Her party also supported NDA government's bill on GST and the land boundary agreement with Bangladesh even though it is opposing the land bill and the real estate bill in parliament.

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