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Armed with 'evidence' of Bengal violence, Mamata awaiting meeting with PM

Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is waiting to meet Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee armed with video cassettes of alleged Communist Party of India-Marxist inspired violence in Garbeta in West Bengal's Midnapore district and demand imposition of President's rule in the state.

"I will only speak to the media after I speak to Vajpayeeji either on Monday or Tuesday," Mamata told rediff.com at her fourth-floor MS Flats apartment.

Her close aide Ratan Mukherjee said, " Didi (Mamata) was waiting for an appointment with Vajpayee to talk about the recent violence in Garbheta."

He added that Mamata was also likely to meet Union Home Minister L K Advani in this context.

He informed that the Trinamul chief was undergoing treatment for an injury sustained in Keshpur.

Significantly, the five-member National Democratic Alliance team led by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vijay Goel, which visited the scene of the violence in which eleven innocent villagers allegedly lost their lives, supported Mamata's demand for President's rule in West Bengal.

Prime Minister Vajpayee told reporters before leaving Bali on Sunday that although he knew about the demand for President's rule in West Bengal, he would take a decision only after consulting NDA leaders.

However, mediapersons who reached the PMO on Monday morning were told that no cabinet meeting was scheduled for the day.

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