Mamata Banerjee runs into PM's wife before boarding flight to meet Modi
Banerjee is scheduled to meet the prime minister on Wednesday in New Delhi, during which she would highlight various issues like funds that are due to the state.
Published: 18th September 2019 01:35 AM | Last Updated: 18th September 2019 11:28 AM | A+A A-
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (Photo | PTI)
KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, on her way to Delhi to meet the Prime Minister, greeted Narendra Modi’s wife Joshodaben at Kolkata airport on Tuesday and exchange pleasantries. She greeted her with a flower bucket and gifted her a sari.
Jashodaben was on her two-day Jharkhand trip and she visited a temple in adjoining Asansol area to offer puja on Monday. Mamata had an information that she would be at the airport when the Bengal chief minister will be leaving for Delhi. She asked to arrange a flower bucket and a sari to greet Jashodaben, who was en route to Ahmedabad.
Mamata was heard telling Jashodaben, ‘’How are you? Thank you for coming to our state.’’
She gifted the flower bucket and the sari bought from the airport’s state-run Biswa Bangla showroom.
Mamata greeted Jashodaben hours after she had wished Modi on Twitter on his birthday.
During the general election campaign, Mamata turned Jashodaben’s "plight" of being "abandoned" by her husband into a poll prank.
