Mamata Banerjee will not attend PM Modi's swearing-in

By SHEETAL CHAVAN | published: May 29, 2019 04:02 PM 2019-02-12T14:15:30+5:30

city : kolkata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in on May 30.

"Congratulations. new Prime Minister, Narendra Modi ji. It was my plan to accept the 'Constitutional invitation' and attend the oath-taking ceremony. However. in the last one hour, I am seeing media reports that the BJP is claiming 54 people have been murdered in political violence in Bengal. This is completely untrue. There have been no political murders in Bengal. These deaths may have occurred due to personal enmity. family quarrels and other disputes; nothing related to politics.

"The oath-taking ceremony is an august occasion to celebrate democracy, not one that should be devalued by any political party," read the caption of her letter to PM Modi, in which she explained why she will give the ceremony a miss.

The West Bengal CM wrote that she was forced to turn down the invitation after coming across media reports in which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claimed that over 50 people were murdered in poll-related violence across the state. "This is completely untrue," she wrote.

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