KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee will skip a CMs’ meeting called by Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Monday to review the strategy on dealing with Left wing extremism. Home secretary Malay Dey will represent the state at the meeting that comes after the recent killings o f 25 CRPF jawans in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma.State administration insiders said that the chief minister would not attend the meeting as she would be busy with prior engagements.Last month, Banerjee had also skipped a meeting of the governing council of the Niti Aayog convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi . She deputed finance minister Amit Mitra to attend the meeting. But Mitra could not attend the same after the PM’s decision that only chief ministers and deputy chief ministers would be allowed to represent state governments.According to political commentators, by skipping all crucial meetings called by the Union government, Banerjee is preparing the ground for floating an anti-BJP political platform to fight the NDA in 2019. However, a senior Trinamool Congress leader said that the Maoist menace in Bengal had ended in 2011 with the killing of military strategist Kishenji in an encounter, a few months after Banerjee became CM the first time. According to a state government official, the chief minister wants the home secretary to highlight success of the Banerjee government in ‘exterminating’ the Maoist menace. “Not a single person was killed by Maoist at Jangalmahal after Mamata Banerjee came to power,” said a key minister in Banerjee’s cabinet.