Mamata Banerjee takes U-turn, not to attend PM's oath-taking

Mamata Banerjee takes U-turn, not to attend PM's oath-taking

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not attend the oath-taking ceremony ofPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, after rejecting the BJP's claim that scores of saffron party workers were killed in violence perpetrated by her TMC. The TMC supremo's announcement on Twitter came in apparent remonstrance after the families of over 40 BJP workers allegedly slain by her party were taken by train to New Delhi to attend the swearing-in ceremony. Banerjee had on Tuesday received an invitation and told reporters she would attend the event as a matter of "constitutional courtesy" after having spoken to a couple of chief ministers of other states.