CPM asks Mamata to explain why she skipped PM’s dinner

As their prime opponent Mamata Banerjee threatened to “expose CPI(M)’s double standards” during US President Barack Obama’s visit,the major Left party on Tuesday said she herself had to do some explaining on her conduct.

“Very good. Let her go to the people and explain her conduct … tell them what she did. Why did she boycott the Prime Minister’s dinner but attended the President’s,” CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury asked.

He was asked by reporters here to comment on the Trinamool Congress chief’s reported statement that she would go to the people and “expose the CPI(M)’s double standards” in attending Obama’s speech in Parliament but opposing his visit and holding demonstrations outside the House.