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Advani cancels Kolkata trip

By Malabika Bhattacharya

KOLKATA, FEB. 18. The Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, has cancelled his visit to Kolkata scheduled tomorrow, following the intra-Trinamool Congress feud involving the party chief, Mamata Banerjee and its Member of Parliament, Sudip Bandopadhyay.

Mr. Advani's original programme was to lay the foundation stone for the Vivekananda bridge in Dakshineswar, near Kolkata tomorrow.

When the news of Mr. Advani's cancellation of the visit reached the two quarrelling camps, both began to exert pressure on him to participate in one and shun the other. Ms. Banerjee hurriedly lined up a programme in which Mr. Advani was slated to unveil a statue of Mother Teresa at Park Street in central Kolkata.

Ms. Banerjee has propped up the Kolkata Mayor, Subrata Mukherjee, as the candidate for Kolkata North-West and suggested that Mr. Bandopadhyay be given the far away Raigunj seat in North Bengal where the Congress chief whip, Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi, is the sitting MP.

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