Mamata Banerjee’s meeting with PM Modi By Deepak Parvatiyar March 13, 2015 Why should the irrepressible Mamata Banerjee boast after the meeting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised her state government? Even if Modi did, then why should the chief of the West Bengal unit of Modi’s party – the Bharatiya Janata Party – repudiate such claims? Or, in retrospect, why can’t a meeting between Mamata and Modi, that took place in Parliament House on 9 March, simply be seen as one between a state chief minister and the Prime Minister? Much of history is attached to these questions and mere insinuations are not enough to dissect the confabulations between the two combative leaders. Mamata’s no-holds-barred attack on Modi After all, merely ten months ago, the intemperate West Bengal CM had had no scruples calling Modi names. From branding the then BJP’s PM face as “paper tiger”, to mocking him as “Hanuman…(who) has put on a tail, he’s flying around burning Lankas ever
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