Mamata Banerjee cancels her meeting with Chidambaram, flying back to Kolkata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has cancelled her meeting with finance minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday and is flying back to Kolkata from Delhi by this evening.

Last evening she had cancelled her meeting with the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh following fierce heckled by CPI(M) student activists at the Planning Commission office in New Delhi. The SFI members assaulted 66-year-old West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra who was with Mamata Banerjee while going to meet Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia. Upset Dr. Singh called Mamata in the evening.

Mamata Banerjee slammed CPI (M) and said, “Our cadre are peaceful, all ruckus was created by the CPM. It’s a double standard game of CPM, they are hypocrites.”

“We were not allowed to enter the Planning Commission. The Left will never come back in West Bengal. It’s dirty politics,” an angry Mamata said.

“This is mere hooliganism. This is not protest. I could have been killed. This is the situation outside Planning Commission in New Delhi. Where’s the security?” Mamata added.

“I was given oxygen whole night on Tuesday, the doctor advised me to get hospitalised, but I don’t like to get hospitalised,” Mamata told reporters when asked about her health.

West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan has condemned the attacks on Chief Minister and Finance Minister.

“This kind of attack on a democratically elected chief minister, the finance minister and their cabinet colleagues is unprecedented in India’s modern history and is serious enough to warrant a public apology by the Politburo of CPI (M),” he said.

“I strongly condemn the incident, this is wrong politics” said former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.

Trinamool Congress to hold peaceful protest marches in Kolkata and Delhi on Wednesday.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has also appealed for peace in the State.

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