Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not attend the oath-taking ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, after rejecting the BJP's claim that scores of saffron party workers were killed in violence perpetrated by her TMC.

Her announcement on Twitter came in apparent remonstrance after the families of over 50 BJP workers allegedly slain by her party were taken by train to New Delhi to attend the swearing-in ceremony. Banerjee had, on Tuesday, received an invitation and told reporters she would attend the event as a matter of "constitutional courtesy".