Kolkata, Aug 18 (PTI) Former BJP MP Subramanian Swamy on Thursday paid a visit to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the state secretariat here and they held a meeting for almost half an hour, a source in the administration said.

The source described the visit of Swamy, a staunch critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as a courtesy call.

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Swamy later tweeted: “Today I was in Kolkata and met the charismatic Mamata Banerjee. She is a courageous person. I admired her fight against the CPM in which she decimated the Communists.”

He also shared a photograph of him with Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress supremo.

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Following their meeting, speculation is rife about his political move.

Swamy had called on Banerjee in November last year also in New Delhi.

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