Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s wife Jashodaben at the Netaji Subhas International Airport in Kolkata on Tuesday.
The meeting happened when Banerjee was on her way to meet PM Modi in New Delhi, while Jashodaben was leaving the city after a two-day visit to Dhanbad in neighbouring Jharkhand.
The Bengal CM also gifted a traditional Bengali saree and a box of sweet to Jashodaben.
Jashodaben had visited the Kalyaneswari temple at Asansol of West Burdwan district and offered puja, a temple official said on Tuesday.
Jashodaben, who was on a two-day trip to Dhanbad in Jharkhand, arrived at the famous temple at 12.45 p.m. on Monday and spent half an hour.
Soon after she arrived with a relative, a big crowd gathered to see her. A large number of security personnel had been posted in and around the temple in view of the 67-year-old retired school teacher's visit.
After the puja, she went round the temple for some time before leaving.
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