Mamata to skip CMs meet called by Centre

New Delhi: After an exchange of virtual barbs with the BJP, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to give the chief ministers' meet called by the central government a miss.

Mamata will skip the meet scheduled to take place on Saturday in New Delhi to discuss internal security. She is likely to send state Finance Minister Amit Mitra as a representative to the meeting.

Mamata and BJP have been critical of each other for some time. She is apparently miffed with the Centre over CBI investigation into the Saradha scam. Meanwhile, BJP chief Amit Shah took the tensions between them a notch higher when he alleged that there was a connection between the Saradha scam and Burdwan blasts.