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News Desk: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a 15-minute meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at Kalaikunda Air Base in Bengal’s West Midnapore district Friday. The two were to hold a review meeting to assess damage from Cyclone Yaas – which hit Bengal and Odisha this week – but Ms Banerjee skipped that, leaving after giving PM Modi a damage report.
She later said she told the Prime Minister “you came far to meet me… so I came to meet you”.
“I told him – ‘You came far to meet me. You wanted to meet me, so I came. My Chief Secretary and I, we are submitting this report to you. I now have to go to Digha as per my schedule. So I am taking your leave’,” Ms Banerjee told reporters at Digha, one of the districts most badly affected by Yaas.
“Now I am here… where we are holding our administrative review meeting. Tomorrow we will conduct an aerial survey (of affected regions),” she added.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has also asked PM Narendra Modi for Rs 20,000 crore – s 10,000 crore each for Digha Development & Sundarban Development.
