The Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee said today that she is not going to attend the swearing-in ceremony of PM Modi. She shared information in this regard on twitter. The decision was taken after she found that the families of the BJP workers killed during Panchayat and Lok Sabha elections are also going to attend the programme. Citing the media report in which it is alleged that “the BJP claiming 54 people have been murdered in political violence in Bengal”, the CM of West Bengal refused to attend the programme and said, “So, I am sorry, Narender Modi Ji, this has compelled me not to attend the ceremony”. Though in the same letter she mentioned that she was planning “to accept the Constitutional invitation and attend the oath-taking ceremony” but the media reports on the political murders in West Bengal changed her plans.

 

 

 

It is important to note here that the swearing-in ceremony of PM Modi will be attended by the kins of 51 BJP workers, who lost their lives in the political violence during Panchayat and Lok Sabha elections. Out of the total 51 BJP workers killed in West Bengal, 47 were killed in the violence during Panchayat polls and the rest during Lok Sabha election.