She stressed that the Centre should not decide which party sends whom as part of the delegation.
“We were not contacted about this. Nowadays, they only inform the parliamentary party, not the main outfit. The parliamentary party cannot take policy decisions,” the West Bengal Chief Minister said at Kolkata airport before leaving for north Bengal on a three-day official trip.
“No request to send a representative’s name for the outreach programme came to us. If it had, then of course we could have considered it. We are totally in favour of the country on matters of external affairs. Naming representatives for diplomatic multi-party delegations to counter Pak-backed terrorism is the choice of parties, not of the Centre,” Banerjee said. PTI SCH BDC MNB