Before leaving Writers' Buildings on Saturday,Mamata said the Prime Minister was coming to the city on Sunday and that she would be accompanying him to a programme. "I have asked our minister Partha Chatterjee to make an appointment with the PM at any possible time on Sunday so that our ministers could talk to him for some time on issues related to the state," she said.
The CM said she would receive the Prime Minister at the airport and accompany him to Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics where the PM will attend the concluding function of the institute's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The CM will then go to launch an IT park project. The chief minister said that she is looking up to a discussion with the PM on several issues pertaining to the state. Later, other ministers of the state may meet the Prime Minister.
Mamata wants to ensure that the Centre released the grants it had promised for Bengal on time as the state was passing through an acute fund crunch. The CM would brief Singh about the crisis and the state government's bid to raise revenue that the Centre has been insisting from time to time. In fact, the Prime Minister had told Sudip Bandyopadhyay, the Trinamool Congress chief whip in Parliament, that he would take up the matter himself.
The CM will brief the PM among other issues the latest situation in the Hills after the Centre and the state signed the Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA) agreement with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha in Darjeeling. The Trinamool Congress chief will also reiterate her stand on the draft Land Bill that is likely to accommodate some of her views on land acquisition.
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