A wedding with a “bandwalah but no bride or groom” — that is how chief minister Mamata Banerjee described Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inauguration of Calcutta High Court’s Jalpaiguri circuit bench on Friday, barely an hour after the event. “Maddybabu (Modi) did not inform any high court judge or the state. a great shame,” the chief minister said in Calcutta. The Trinamul chief said the state had spent over “Rs 300 crore” for the bench. “We had given the land….The Calcutta High Court chief justice had given the inauguration date four months ago.

Source: The Telegraph February 08, 2019 20:48 UTC