West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday did not attend the videoconference meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with her equivalents in various states.
If sources in the state government are to be believed, it was because the Centre has not cleared West Bengal’s dues and also because Banerjee thinks the PM should have acted on the Covid-19 pandemic sooner. Two letters Banerjee wrote Modi in March have been publicised. In one she requested him to stop incoming international flights to Kolkata, just before he announced a nationwide 21-day lockdown, and in another, earlier this week, she sought Rs