How Bengal saw the coronavirus pandemic on horizon before the centre did

she had requested Modi to stop all incoming international flights to Kolkata, just before he announced a nationwide 21-day lockdown

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee did not attend the videoconference meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with state chief ministers on Thursday. If sources in the state government are to be believed, it was because the centre has not cleared West Bengal’s dues and because Banerjee believes that the Prime Minister should have acted on the Covid-19 pandemic sooner.

 

In March, two letters from Banerjee to the central government were publicized. One in