Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Malviya on Friday said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should start prioritising people's welfare over her "fragile ego".
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was visibly irked on Friday after the people at Howrah Railway station here, raised 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans upon her arrival at the event where Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually flagged off the nation's seventh Vande Bharat Express.
Just a short while after he performed the last rites of his mother Heeraben who passed away early this morning, PM Modi joined the event in Kolkata through video conferencing. Apologising for not being able to be present physically at the event, PM Modi said, "I was supposed to come to West
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday expressed her condolence to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that "your mother is our mother".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake inauguration programmes in West Bengal and chair the National Ganga Council meeting via Video Conferencing.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was scheduled to embark on a visit to West Bengal to launch the developmental projects, may join the events through video conferencing, sources said on Friday.
Just one day before the official launch of Vande Bharat Express from Bengal, West Bengal BJP President and MP (Balurghat) Sukanta Majumadar wrote a letter to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav requesting a stoppage at Bolpur Shantiniketan Station for the express.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit West Bengal on Friday to flag off Vande Bharat Express connecting Howrah to New Jalpaiguri at Howrah Railway Station and inaugurate the Joka-Taratala stretch of the Purple Line of Kolkata Metro.