State, Centre separate politics and business as Modi visits Bengal
State, Centre separate politics and business as Modi visits Bengal 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. ...