Mamata Arrives In Delhi To Meet PM Modi Over MNREGA Funds, Will Attend Oppn Bloc Huddle
CM Mamata Banerjee will meet the TMC MPs on Monday, attend the Opposition meeting on Tuesday and meet PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday.
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee arrived on a four-day visit to Delhi on Sunday, news agency PTI reported. During her stay in the national capital, she is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, her party MPs, and attend a meeting of the Opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc.
According to the report, CM Banerjee will meet the TMC MPs on Monday, attend the Opposition meeting on Tuesday and meet PM Modi on Wednesday. She had sought time from the Prime Minister over the issue of pending MNREGA funds.
“The Centre) have stopped our funds and are not willing to release our dues. Bengal is the only state whose funds have been withheld. We will raise our voice against this and we are raising our voice against this. This will be a part (of the meeting with the PM). This is why I am going to Delhi,” she told PTI before leaving Kolkata earlier in the day.
She is scheduled to meet PM Modi at 11am on Wednesday.
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Expressing concern over the Parliament security breach, CM Banerjee said it is a “serious matter” and thorough probe should be done. “There was a great lapse. the Union Home Minister has already admitted that. Let them investigate it,” she told PTI.
She also dismissed an alleged link of the security breach accused Lalit Jha with TMC’s youth wing.
Demanding an “unbiased investigation”, she said, “He (Lalit Jha) has some connection with Jharkhand or some other state, I am not sure about this.”
CM Banerjee also slammed the BJP of “spreading nuisance” and “maligning” the state.
“We must be responsible while making comments. They (the BJP) have a habit of maligning Bengal and spreading nuisance. Bengal doesn't support any kind of wrongdoing,” the TMC supremo told the news agency.
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