Mamata Banerjee is unlikely to attend Narendra Modi’s Sunday event at Haldia, despite being invited to it, as there are apprehensions of the central government programme being used to “humiliate” her, said sources close to her.

“They seem to have this plan of inviting her and then doing things to insult her and the state government. Why should she go and facilitate that gross discourtesy?” asked the source.

The Bengal chief minister, said the source, is wary of a repeat of the January 23 event at Victoria Memorial — supposed to be an apolitical event of the BJP-led Centre meant to honour Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose — where she went as an invitee but was heckled by sections in the audience.

“They did not even spare an event in honour of Netaji. Why should this be any different?” asked the source, referring to Sunday’s event where Modi would inaugurate infrastructure projects in oil and gas, and road sectors.

“Not only is she unlikely to go, but she also expects other elected representatives from the party (such as Ghatal MP Dev, the actor-politician) to give it a miss,” said a Trinamul Congress MP.

Earlier in the day, Saumitra Khan, the BJP’s Bishnupur MP and the party’s state youth wing chief, tweeted that Dev and Contai MP Sisir Adhikari — the father of BJP’s catch of the season Suvendu Adhikari, who is yet to defect from Trinamul — would share the dais with Modi.

‘When she found out, she called Dev, asking him if he was planning to go even if she might not. He said he was certainly not going and had already issued a statement on Twitter clarifying that Khan was mistaken…. That put her at ease,” said a source.