From correspondents in West Bengal, India, 12:00 AM IST

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee held a 45-minute meeting here Friday night but they did not speak to the media.

The duo met at the NSC Bose International Airport, where Mukherjee flew in after a day's visit to his Lok Sabha constituency of Jangipur in Murshidabad district.

Mukherjee later left for Delhi.

(Staff Writer, © IANS)