There are chances that Home Minister Amit Shah and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will engage each other in a one-on-one dialogue on the sidelines of eastern zonal security council meeting.
The meeting is scheduled to take place on November 5 and is likely to be attended apart from the Bengal Chief Minister, her counterparts from Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand and Sikkim. Shah is the ex-officio Chairman of the zonal council.
The meeting will take place at Bengal State secretariat Nabanna in Kolkata.
Whether Shah would attend any political programme for the BJP was still not clear as there was no such announcement from the saffron party’s State office.
A possible Banerjee-Shah parley would be eagerly awaited by the State media circle particularly in the light of some scathing attack launched by the Bengal Chief Minister who had recently said that Shah and not Prime Minister Narendra Modi was responsible for the alleged excesses perpetrated by the ED and CBI in the State that resulted in the arrest of senior TMC politicians including ministers, MLAs and district presidents like Partha Chatterjee, Manik Bhattacharya and Anubrata Mondal.
This would be the first time after the recent spate of arrests made by the central agencies that the Chief Minister and the Home Mininster would meet face to face.