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Mamata skips Cabinet meeting
New Delhi: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today skipped the meeting of the Union Cabinet which was
convened to take a decision on recommending imposition of President's Rule in Jharkhand. Banerjee was in Delhi when the Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took place but she did not
attend, official sources said.
It is not for the first time that Banerjee has stayed away from the meeting of the Union Cabinet since she has
skipped it on previous occasions too.
Banerjee's action came a day after Union Home Minister P Chidambaram debunked the 'political conspiracy' theory floated
by her to target CPI-M in connection with the Jnaneswari Express derailment in Midnapore last Saturday in which 148
persons were killed. In a rebuff to Banerjee, Chidambaram said the 'needle of suspicion' in the derailment pointed to Maoists
or organisations linked to them.
On one occasion last year, it was stated that Banerjee did not attend as no issue concerning her ministry was to be
discussed at the Cabinet. Banerjee had again skipped the Cabinet meet ostensibly because she had to 'rush' to Kolkata.
Banerjee once almost walked out of the Cabinet meeting over the proposed land acquisition bill. PTI
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New Delhi: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today skipped the meeting of the Union Cabinet which was
convened to take a decision on recommending imposition of President's Rule in Jharkhand. Banerjee was in Delhi when the Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took place but she did not
attend, official sources said.
It is not for the first time that Banerjee has stayed away from the meeting of the Union Cabinet since she has
skipped it on previous occasions too.
Banerjee's action came a day after Union Home Minister P Chidambaram debunked the 'political conspiracy' theory floated
by her to target CPI-M in connection with the Jnaneswari Express derailment in Midnapore last Saturday in which 148
persons were killed. In a rebuff to Banerjee, Chidambaram said the 'needle of suspicion' in the derailment pointed to Maoists
or organisations linked to them.
On one occasion last year, it was stated that Banerjee did not attend as no issue concerning her ministry was to be
discussed at the Cabinet. Banerjee had again skipped the Cabinet meet ostensibly because she had to 'rush' to Kolkata.
Banerjee once almost walked out of the Cabinet meeting over the proposed land acquisition bill. PTI
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