Mamta: Right to visit Rome, Bengal CM Mamta Banerjee blew up the center. India News – Times of India

Kolkata: Bengal From. m love of a mother Banerjee claimed on Saturday that a “vindictive” and “jealous” center had compromised the country’s reputation by refusing to allow a visit to a global peace conference in Rome, saying it was “at the level of a chief minister”. did not conform”.
The Ministry of External Affairs formally informed the Bengal government about its decision on Friday, prompting a typical Mamata in which she challenged the Center to “stop me”.
“I am not keen on going abroad, but it was about the honor of the nation. This government keeps talking of Hindu interests. But if it really has Hindu interests at its heart, then India’s only Hindu woman representative should ( Why is it not allowed to go there? He said, pointing out that all the other invitees to the event were Christians and Muslims.

“I was going to represent India, it was not a holiday,” Mamata said on her by-election campaign in Bhawanipur. “The Italian government had given me special permission. Many heads of state and religious leaders are going to attend the event and I was the only Indian who was invited. ”
The CM questioned why he was barred from attending events abroad “whenever I want to go but all of you (BJP leadership) can travel as per your wish”.
In 2018, Mamata was not allowed to attend an event in Chicago to mark 125 years of Swami Vivekananda’s historic speech at the World Parliament of Religions. Earlier, a proposed visit to China had to be canceled at the last minute as the Center did not allow it.
All official foreign visits by Chief Ministers require the permission of the Ministry of External Affairs.
Mamata’s visit to Rome for the proposed event – “People as Brothers, Future Earth” – was scheduled for October 6 and 7. The formal invitation came on July 22, mentioning “his contribution and his commitment to social justice for the underprivileged and the underprivileged”, the officials said.

Apart from Bengal Chief Minister, the list of invitees includes the Pope Francis, german chancellor Angela Merkel and Ahmed Al Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Egypt.
Mamata and the Trinamool Congress had given a similar reaction to the canceled Chicago visit in 2018. The CM had then termed the denial of travel permission as “an unholy conspiracy hatched by some people”. The organizers then canceled the event. Later at another event held in Chicago under a different banner the RSS chief was Mohan Bhagwati as a speaker.