Mamata's date with Delhi

After winning the Assembly elections in West Bengal earlier this year and retaining the chief minister's post, Mamata Banerjee had declared that she would visit Delhi every two months. In keeping with that promise, she is getting ready to attend a meeting of the inter-state council that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair in Delhi on July 16 and 17. The council would be meeting for the first time in 10 years. If, indeed, she travels to Delhi for that meeting, it would be the first time Banerjee would be attending a meeting called by Modi where chief ministers are expected to be present. In December 2014 and February 2015, she had sent state Finance and Industries Minister Amit Mitra to attend the meetings of chief ministers in the national capital.