PM Never Gave Mamata Banerjee Permission To Skip Meet: Government Sources

Mamata Banerjee and her team had skipped the meeting with PM Modi to review the impact of Cyclone Yaas in Bengal and left after a brief interaction with the Prime Minister, setting up a mega clash.

Mamata Banerjee has given "entirely false statements" and "boycotted" a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday after agreeing to attend it, the centre said today in its second rebuttal to the Bengal Chief Minister's allegations. In a nine-point rejoinder, government sources tore into Mamata Banerjee's account of the Friday incident. Mamata Banerjee and her team had skipped the meeting with PM Modi to review the impact of Cyclone Yaas in Bengal and left after a brief interaction with the Prime Minister, setting up a mega clash. PM Modi never gave permission to Mamata Banerjee to leave the review meeting as she claims, government sources said.