INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ministry on Wednesday dismissed reports that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was denied permission to visit Chicago to attend the
world Hindu conference.Spokesperson of the ministry Raveesh Kumar said the government did not receive any request for clearance for her
visit."We did not receive any request for clearance regarding the visit of Ms Mamata Banerjee to Chicago for the event
The reports about the denial of permission are, therefore, not true," he said in response to a question on the reports.The West Bengal chief
minister had yesterday said, "I wanted to go to Chicago I could not go there because of an unholy conspiracy hatched by certain people
This incident has given me a lot of pain."She had made the comment at a gathering in Belur Math, the global headquarters of the Ramakrishna
Math and Mission, to mark 125th anniversary of Swami Vivekananda's historic speech at the Parliament of the World's Religions held in
