Mamata to visit Delhi next Monday, may meet PM Modi
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to visit New Delhi on June 9 and may meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She is likely to return on June 11.
Sources at Nabanna, the state secretariat, said that the CM’s Office has sought an appointment from the PMO for a meeting on June 10. “The chief minister wants to raise the issue of the Centre’s pending funds and dues to the West Bengal government, which has now ballooned to over Rs 2 lakh 27 thousand crore,” an official said.
The TMC government in the state has been raising the issue of pending Central funds for schemes like MGNREGA (rural job guarantee scheme) and PM Awas Yojana (housing scheme for the poor), and has even knocked the doors of the Supreme Court. The BJP government at the Centre has justified the blocking of the fu...