Mamata Banerjee attending G20 dinner: TMC says, ‘No political agenda...’

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Narendra Modi government. The state Congress president also wondered whether there was “any other reason" for the Trinamool Congress supremo to take part in the programme. "When many non-BJP CMs refrained from attending the dinner, Didi (Mamata Banerjee) went to Delhi a day in advance.

She attended the occasion with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the same room. “I wonder what prompted her to rush all the way to Delhi to be in the dinner party along with these leaders," Choudhury told reporters here. Clarifying why Banerjee attended the dinner, TMC leader Saugata Roy said, “Mamata Banerjee was invited as the chief minister of West Bengal to the G20 dinner by the President (Droupadi Murmu).

She attended it as a matter of ample courtesy. There is no political significance to it and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury should not have commented on it." Meanwhile, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen said everyone knows Mamata Banerjee is one of the architects behind INDIA and none can question her commitment. "Choudhury will not decide when the chief minister of the state will go to attend a dinner on the occasion of G20 as part of the protocol," Sen said.

Banerjee went to Delhi on Friday, while the dinner party was held the next day. Banerjee’s flight was scheduled for Saturday, but it was rescheduled to Friday afternoon owing to regulation of flight movements in the national capital, officials said. (With PTI inputs)