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  • Mamata Banerjee to skip PM Modi’s Haldia event today

    By Express News Service
    KOLKATA:  Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is unlikely to share the stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday in Haldia, where the latter would dedicate four projects worth `4,700 crore in oil, gas and infrastructure sectors. The projects are those of PSUs Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL), Gas Authority of India (GA IL) and the NHAI.

    Despite being invited, Mamata is likely to skip the event in the backdrop of the apolitical January 23 event organised by the Union Information Ministry at Victoria Memorial where a section of the audience raised Jai Shri Ram slogans when Mamata was about to speak, said a source in the Trinamool. Irked by the sloganeering, Mamata had skipped her speech in protest. “It appears that the CM has been invited for a re-run of the Victoria Memorial episode,” said a TMC leader.

    Elected TMC leaders too will not attend event Earlier, BJP’s Saumitra Khan tweeted TMC MP from Ghatal, Dipak Adhikary alias Dev, would share the stage with Modi. “When Mamata found it out, she called Dev asking him if he was planning to go even if she might not. He said he was certainly not going,” said a TMC leader

  • Mamata to skip PM’s Haldia event, TMC says CM invited for re-run of Victoria Memorial episode

    Express News Service
    KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is unlikely to share the stage with Narendra Modi on Sunday in Haldia, East Midnapore, from where the Prime Minister will dedicate four projects worth Rs 4,700 crore in oil, gas, and infrastructure sectors.

    The projects will be executed by the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL), Gas Authority of India (GAIL), and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

    Despite being invited, the Bengal CM decided to skip the event in the backdrop of the apolitical January 23 event organised by the Union Information Ministry at the Victoria Memorial where she was “insulted” by a section of the audience who raised the ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan in the presence of Modi, said a source in the Trinamool Congress. Irked by the slogan, Banerjee had refused to speak in protest.

    “It appears that the Chief Minister has been invited for the re-run of the Victoria Memorial episode,” said a TMC leader. Sources said the CM also expects other elected representatives of her party to give the Haldia event a miss.

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    Earlier, BJP’s youth wing chief Saumitra Khan tweeted saying that TMC MP from Ghatal Dipak Adhikary alias Dev would share the stage with Modi. “When she (Mamata) knew about this, she called Dev asking him if he was planning to go. He said he certainly was not attending the event and had already issued a statement on his Twitter handle clarifying that Khan was mistaken,” said the leader.             

    Modi will lay the foundation of the second catalytic dewaxing unit at the Haldia refinery of IOCL which will also serve as an important substitution project. BPCL’s new LPG terminal will be inaugurated by the PM to meet the growing demand of the eastern region.

    On that day, Modi will dedicate the 347-km long Dhobi-Durgapur pipeline, which is a part of the Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga project, built at a cost of 2,400 crore. He will also dedicate NHAI’s 190 crore road over bridge-cum-flyover at Ranichak in Haldia for seamless traffic movement at Haldia port gate.