Banerjee’s meeting with Modi provided added ammunition to Opposition parties, who dubbed the Trinamool Congress as the BJP’s B-team
Current Affairs:Governmental issues and business were kept separate on Saturday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Kolkata as boss clergyman Mamata Banerjee held a gathering with him before joining a dissent against the new citizenship law.
Banerjee, who has been at the bleeding edge of the disturbance against the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens (NRC), met the Prime Minister at Raj Bhavan, the official habitation of the West Bengal Governor.
Banerjee said it was a kindness meeting. “It is my protected obligation to meet the Prime Minister when he is visiting. We have requested Rs 28,000 crore that is because of us and Rs 7,000 crore by virtue of Bulbul (violent wind). The Prime Minister has said that he will beware of this,” she said.
Banerjee included that she likewise raised the issue of CAA, NRC and NPR. “We are against it and I have said that it ought to be reexamined and pulled back,” she said. The gathering occurred not long after Modi arrived in Kolkata in the midst of boundless fights over the citizenship law, which was informed by the Center on Friday. Truth be told, looked with dissenters outside the air terminal, Modi took a helicopter to Race Course Turf Club from the air terminal before continuing to Raj Bhavan. The first arrangement was for him to go by street.
The Banerjee’s gathering with Modi gave added ammo to Opposition parties, who named the Trinamool Congress as the BJP’s B-group.
Directly after the gathering Banerjee made a beeline for Rani Rashmoni Road close by to partake in a dissent against CAA-NRC-NPR.
Banerjee said there that serene fights against CAA and NRC would proceed. She included that the CAA would not be executed in the state. “This is illegal. We won’t actualize NRC, CAA or NPR,” she said. From the dissent site, Banerjee set out toward Millennium Park, where Prime Minister Modi revealed a powerful brightening of the Howrah Bridge as a component of 150th festivals of Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT). She, in any case, avoided a social program at Old Currency Building.
Be that as it may, the circumstance left hand when Banerjee again made a beeline for the dissent site. Understudies fighting in the region headed there and sloganeered against the gathering.
There was a minor fight with the police as they attempted to break the blockade. Banerjee attempted her best to appease them by saying that it was her protected obligation to meet the Prime Minister. “There were four occasions, I went to one,” she said.
Banerjee, in any case, is set to share the stage again with Modi on Sunday at an occasion to stamp 150 years of Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT). Representative Jagdeep Dhankhar would likewise be there.
PM Modi is remaining the night at Belur Math.
Aditi Mehta 