Chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s back-to-back meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah in Delhi over the past two days, according to state BJP sources, have caused “an unease” in the Bengal BJP.

“We have always requested our national leaders in Delhi not to entertain Mamata in closed-door meetings. She is capable of manipulating such situations to her own advantage, which would cause problems for us in Bengal,” said a senior party leader.

According to him, the pictures of friendly meetings between Mamata and Modi and Mamata and Shah would not help the party in Bengal.

The other reason for discomfort, he added, is Mamata’s invite to Modi for the inauguration of Birbhum’s Deocha-Pachami coal block after the festive season.

The unease at the invitation — Modi hasn’t yet said yes or no — was apparent with Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta writing to the Prime Minister requesting him to wait for proper environmental clearances and a rehabilitation package for tribal people before agreeing to inaugurate it. The residents will be displaced by the project.

Dasgupta’s letter said: “There has been no study of its social and environmental consequences and the process of securing environmental clearances has not even begun.”

The MP also highlighted that the state government is yet to begin any comprehensive rehabilitation policy for the displaced people, particularly the tribal, in the coal block area.

Dasgupta alleged “police high-handedness” and law and order deterioration in the area. “In recent weeks, Birbhum district has been gripped by political violence and there are serious charges of police high-handedness. There is a suspicion that some of these violence may be triggered by land sharks.”

According to Dasgupta, the Prime Minister’s presence at such an event might indicate that all necessary formalities were completed and coal mining was likely to be operational within a very short time.