Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s journey to the UK needed to be lower brief by nearly a day as her flight needed to be rescheduled after a fireplace knocked out the ability provide to of Heathrow airport.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. (File Picture)
The chief minister was initially scheduled to fly to London on Friday evening. Later it was rescheduled to Saturday morning. She lastly left on Saturday night.
A fireplace on the Europe’s busiest airport stranded tens of 1000’s of passengers, inflicting journey turmoil worldwide.
“As you know we had a flight in the morning but it had to be cancelled. This has disrupted the entire schedule. The trip has become very hectic, including two days of travel,” Banerjee advised the media on the NSCBI airport in Kolkata.
“There is no direct flight to London from Kolkata and that’s why this problem. We are trying our best to get a direct flight between London and Kolkata,” she added.
Banerjee is scheduled to ship a lecture on the College of Oxford on March 27. The chief minister and her staff are additionally scheduled to attend a sequence of applications organised by the Indian excessive fee on March 24, a enterprise summit on March 25 and a government-to-government program on March 26.
Banerjee on Thursday arrange a bunch of ministers and a job power to handle the federal government throughout her UK-visit, whereas Abhishek Banerjee, nationwide common secretary of the Trinamool Congress together with Subrata Bakshi, the social gathering’s president, and others senior leaders have been requested to look into the social gathering’s affairs throughout her absence.
The TMC supremo had additionally alleged that political opponents have been enjoying a “dirty game” and makes an attempt have been being made to malign the state and humiliate the folks of West Bengal throughout her go to.
Banerjee had earlier said that she has acquired invites from varied nations together with Poland, Australia and Canada through the Bengal International Enterprise Summit in Kolkata – the flagship funding summit of the ruling TMC-government – held in February this yr. She added that she would think about visiting Japan in 2027.
West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday mentioned it was a matter of delight that the chief minister was visiting Oxford College to ship a lecture.
“If anything good happens to Bengal, it makes us happy. Also, we are proud that the CM is going to Oxford,” Bose advised reporters on the sidelines of a CII meet in Kolkata.