KOLKATA — The opposition parties in West Bengal on Saturday ridiculed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for staging a walkout from the 9th Governing Council meeting of the NIT Aayog in the national capital. Banerjee on Saturday walked out of the NITI Aayog meeting claiming that her microphone was switched off in the middle of her speech. “I was not allowed to speak even for five minutes. I was insulted as my microphone was switched off,” the Chief Minister told mediapersons after coming out of the meeting. Later, the Press Information Bureau (PIB) under the Information and Broadcasting Ministry refuted the ‘microphone switched off’ claim, terming it ‘misleading’. “It is claimed that the microphone of CM, West Bengal, was switched off during the 9th Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog. This is not correct. The clock only showed that her speaking time was over. Even the bell was not rung to mark it,” PIB said in a fact-check. Commenting on the matter, Bengal BJP spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya said, “It was not clear in the first place why she went (to Delhi) to attend the meeting. Was it to express her views or to create a drama to...