West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is on a Delhi tour, will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and three senior Congress leaders in the national capital Tuesday.
Banerjee is scheduled to meet the Prime Minister at 4 pm.
As per reports, the Chief Minister is likely to bring up issues like financial assistance to her state in the meeting.
This is Banerjee’s first Delhi trip since her Trinamool Congress (TMC) decimated Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2021 assembly elections.
Banerjee had last visited Delhi in 2019 after suffering a setback in the hands of the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls.
The TMC supremo, who is aiming to build an Opposition unity to take on Modi in 2024 elections, will meet Congress leaders Kamal Nath, Anand Sharma and Abhishek Manu Singhvi at 2 pm, 3 pm and 6:30 pm respectively.
Banerjee’s meetings with the Congress leaders are politically significant as both the parties are working together in Parliament during the monsoon session on a number of issues.
To corner the BJP government, Banerjee’s cabinet, hours before the Chief Minister flew off to Delhi, Monday constituted a two-member commission to probe into snooping, in the wake of the Pegasus spyware issue.
Banerjee, who is aiming to play a larger role in national politics, was last week appointed as the TMC’s parliamentary party chairperson.
