Kolkata, Dec 28 : Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee took an auto rickshaw ride to the airport here Monday after her vehicle got stranded in a Muharram procession.

Banerjee, on her way to catch a Delhi-bound flight, found her convoy stalled at the busy V. I. P road-Teghoria crossing close to the N. S. C. Bose International Airport.

As a big Muharram procession wound its way at the crossing, Banerjee got off her car, walked about two km with the procession and then hopped into an airport-bound auto rickshaw.

"She walked nearly two km with the procession and then took the auto-rikshaw," said Jyotipriyo Mallick, a Trinamool Congress legislator.

An officer manning the city police traffic control room confirmed the incident.(IANS)