Jaya's meet with Badal, Patnaik, Modi ends
April 16, 2012  16:09
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Details of the Patnaik, Modi, Badal and Jaya meet.

After attending the Chief Ministers' Conference on Internal Security, Orissa CM Naveen Patnaik and Gujarat CM Narendra Modi went to the Tamil Nadu Bhawan to hold separate meetings with the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is also expected to reach the Tamil Nadu Bhawan. 

"I am here to pay courtesy call on madam J Jayalalithaa. Madam is an old family friend of my father, so I came here to pay a courtesy call," Patnaik told reporters. 

Patnaik was the first to reach the Tamil Nadu Bhawan and Modi joined him later. Modi went inside the hall where the Odisha Chief Minister was meeting his Tamil Nadu counterpart.

Modi and Patnaik exchanged greetings after which Patnaik left. The meeting assumes significance as non-Congress governments in states were opposing the creation of a counter-terrorism centre and proposed amendments to the BSF Act, maintaining that the two infringe upon the states' rights in a federal set up.

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