NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday digressed from the listed agenda of the Eastern Zonal Council (EZC) meeting, chaired by home minister Amit Shah in Bhubaneswar, to bring up the Delhi violence.However, she did not raise the National Population Register (NPR) update, which West Bengal has put on hold over fears that it would lead to creation of an all-India National Register of Citizens (NRC).According to sources, soon after starting her speech at the meeting attended by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik , Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Jharkhand finance minister Ramesh Oraon, Banerjee described the communal violence in the national capital as an important issue of concern, saying it was bound to have a ripple effect in other parts of the nation.Banerjee, while condoling the death of riot victims that included an Intelligence Bureau staffer, is said to have expressed worry over the events in Delhi and hoped for early restoration of normalcy and calm.Interestingly, even though NPR update has been a key irritant for West Bengal, Banerjee did not bother to raise it at the forum meant to iron out Centre-state and inter-state concerns. “The setting could not have been more appropriate, given that other member states too have expressed reservations about the new questions being asked as part of NPR 2020. But she chose not to bring it up,” said a functionary who was present at the meeting.The Centre raised West Bengal’s failure to furnish data relating to 55 of the 78 parameters on which data on crime is collected from each state for compiling the National Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB) annual report on ‘Crime in India’. Banerjee is learnt to have claimed that sharing all data was not possible as some fields were sensitive. She made it a point to underline that law and order was in the exclusive domain of states.The failure on part of West Bengal and Odisha to collect biometric data of around 2 lakh fishermen was also brought up. Shah is said to have insisted that it was part of enhanced coastal security measures introduced in the wake of Mumbai attacks. Banerjee wondered why multiple biometrics-based identification cards were necessary.Addressing the meeting, Shah expressed satisfaction at the usefulness of the zonal council mechanism and said more than 70% issues had been resolved at recent meetings and the remaining issues were under resolution. He said long-pending issues needed to be resolved by regular discussions and not only during the zonal council meetings.Patnaik raised the issue of increase in royalty on coal while Banerjee brought up the delay in payments of GST proceeds and devolution of funds. Nitish Kumar asked for formulation of National Silt Management Policy to take care of floods in the Ganga.Out of the 48 items discussed, 40 were resolved in the meeting.