Mamata meets Modi, seeks SC probe on Pegasus scam

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his official residence in New Delhi, their first meeting after the West Bengal state polls. Emerging from the 20-minute meeting, Mamata told reporters that the PM should convene an all-party meeting to discuss the Pegasus spyware issue and decide on a Supreme Court-monitored probe into it, our New Delhi correspondent reported. The call came a day after Mamata  herself announced the setting up of a judicial inquiry led by a former SC judge to investigate reports that some West Bengal leaders were allegedly targeted by the Pegasus spyware. Mamata termed her meeting with Modi as a 'courtesy visit' and she discussed the Covid situation in Bengal, supply of vaccines and medicine to the state and also a proposal to rename Bengal as Bangla. TMC has been demanding renaming West Bengal as "Bangla" since 2016 and the state assembly twice passed resolutions to this effect.