Minister says she waited to meet Trinamool MPs, Mahua Moitra calls her 'liar'

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Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra called Minister of State for Rural DevelopmentSadhvi Niranjan Jyoti a "lying so and so" after the latter claimed that she waited for TMC leaders in her office for two hours..

The Trinamool Congress had scheduled a meeting with the minister at the Krishi Bhavan today, regarding the party's demand to release funds to West Bengal under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)...

I left the office at 08:30 while waiting for the Trinamool MPs," the Minister of State wrote on X, adding that the party didn't want to discuss the scheduled topics but "do politics"...

In response to Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti's claim, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra called her a "lying so and so"..

As many as 30 leaders of the TMC, including general secretary Abhishek Banerjee were detained by the Delhi Police during their protest inside the Krishi Bhavan, the party alleged...

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