West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Home Minister Amit Shah at Delhi's North Block on Thursday a day after she called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She brought up the Assam NRC topic with Amit Shah but not the talks of NRC in Bengal.

This is the first time Mamata Banerjee is meeting Amit Shah after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and he took over as the Home Minister in the second term of the Modi government.Coming out of the meeting, Mamata Banerjee told reporters, "I raised the issue of Assam NRC with the Home Minister and handed him a letter. I spoke to him about the exclusion of 19 lakh people out of the Assam NRC, some of who are Hindi, Bengali and Gorkha-speaking people and genuine Indian voters."

Asked about the talks of bringing NRC to West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee ruled out the speculation and said that this was not discussed in thebrief meeting with Amit Shah."He didn’t speak about NRC in West Bengal.There is no need for NRC there," said Mamata Banerjee.

On Thursday, she met PM Modi and discussed a host of issues,including the proposal to change West Bengal's name to Bangla. Mamata Banerjee and Amit Shah have been at loggerheads for long with the two party chiefs attacking each other on numerous occasions.

Ahead of Thursday's meeting, Amit Shah proposed on Wednesday that there is need for a nationwide NRC like that in Assam to throw all illegal immigrants out of the country.

Mamata Banerjee, on the other hand, has issued repeated warnings to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Modi government over any such actions on West Bengal.

Bengal BJP has termed her Delhi visit and meetings with PMModi and Amit Shah as her last ditch attempt to "save herself".

Several Trinamool Congress leaders and former Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar have come under the CBI scanner in connection with a ponziscam related to the Saradha group. The Saradha group of companies allegedly duped lakhs of people of Rs 2,500 crore, promising higher rates of return on their investments.Asked if her meeting with Amit Shah had anything to do with Rajeev Kumar, Mamata Banerjee shot back and said it "is political vendetta".Assembly polls in Bengal are due in April-May 2021.