{"id":5766,"date":"2019-06-18T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:41:09","slug":"mamata-banerjee-to-skip-pm-modis-meeting-with-political-party-chiefs-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/mamata-banerjee-to-skip-pm-modis-meeting-with-political-party-chiefs-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamata Banerjee to skip PM Modi\u2019s meeting with political party chiefs on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee won\u2019t attend the scheduled meeting of political party chiefs that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called in New Delhi on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>PM Modi has invited the chiefs of all political parties along with an MP in the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha to discuss various issues. Among other things, discussions will be held on conducting Lok Sabha and Assembly elections at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Mamata Banerjee has written to the Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi stating that the matter required discussions and opinion of experts. \u201cInstead of doing the matter hurriedly, I would request you to kindly circulate a white paper on the subject to all political parties inviting their views by providing adequate time,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Banerjee had refused to participate in the NITI Ayog meeting called in the national capital, arguing that the body did not have financial power to support State Plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mamata Banerjee had skipped the NITI Ayog meeting earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":5708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}