West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee did a u-turn on her decision to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony scheduled to be held on Thursday. In a statement, Banerjee said while she was thankful for the ‘Constitutional invitation’ and that she had wanted to attend but on account of BJP claiming that 54 people had been killed in Bengal in political violence, which she said was untrue, she would not be attending. Claiming that these killing were because of personal enmities, she asked to be excused from the ceremony.

Source: Huffington Post May 29, 2019 09:22 UTC