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Kolkata/Bhubaneswar, July 20: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee and BJD president Naveen Patnaik will share the stage in Kolkata and Bhubaneswar to mark the birth centenary of BJD founder Biju Patnaik.
Three BJD leaders came to meet Banerjee at her office in Nabanna, the Secretariat of West Bengal, to invite her to the function to be held in September, officials said.
The WB Chief Minister accepted the invitation and during the meeting it was also decided that she will be present along with the CM Naveen Patnaik in another programme in Kolkata which will be held in the next two months.
Both the BJD and the Trinamool have in the past spoken on the formation of a federal front of regional parties.
Food supplies and consumer welfare minister Sanjay Kumar Das Burma, BJD chief whip Ananta Das and party BJD general secretary and school and mass education minister Debi Prasad Mishra were present at the meeting with the CM. The BJD government has planned grand scale celebrations to mark the 100th birthday of the late party patriarch. Biju Patnaik was born in 1916 and died in 1997. He was a two-time Chief Minister of Orissa.He also served as a Union minister in the Morarji Desai government from 1977 to 1980.
