West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter’s official 7, Race Course Road (RCR) residence here on Wednesday during which she is expected to seek financial assistance for the post flood reconstruction work in the state.
According to reports, Banerjee is likely to take up the issue of waiver of agricultural loons of the affected farmers with Prime Minister Modi during the meeting expected to take place at 4 p.m.
Banerjee is expected to meet Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar later in the evening. Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and Janata Dal (United) chief Sharad Yadav are also expected to be present in the meeting, which would be held at Pawar’s residence.
The TMC supremo had yesterday met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Reports suggest that she also asked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief to join the meeting of leaders from the opposition camp today.