West Bengal Business Summit 2022: CM Mamata Urges Guv To Tell Govt Not To Harass Industrialists

On Wednesday, CM Mamta Banerjee inaugurated the first business summit organised after the Covid standoff in West Bengal.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee (File photo: AFP)

New Delhi: Addressing a gathering at the Bengal Global Business Summit in Kolkata on Wednesday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to tell the central government not to harass industrialists through central agencies.

“Please raise it in the Governors’ meet,” Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday.

#WestBengal Chief Minister #MamataBanerjee (@MamataOfficial) urging Governor Jagdeep Dhankar (@jdhankhar1) to ensure that "industrialists are not disturbed by central agencies" created political ripples in the state on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/MO5MAljfWO

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Mamta said, "Irrespective of one being from any part of the country, whenever one's in Bengal, one's part of our family and should be comfortable here."

“Forget you are from Gujarat or Maharashtra, when you are in Bengal, you are our family member,” Mamata Banerjee said, adding, “In Bengal, mandir, masjid, Gurudwara all are together, like our bodies. No division.”

"Bengal is a consumption-based economy - people spend Rs 30,000-40,000 crore during Durga Puja festival alone," said Mamata.

On Wednesday, CM Mamta Banerjee inaugurated the first business summit organised after the Covid standoff in West Bengal. She told the businessmen and investors present on this occasion eight pillars on which the development strategy of his government depends.

Chief Minister said that first of these eight pillars are world-class infrastructure, the second is education, the third is social security for the deprived sections and the fourth is skill development. 

According to Mamata, the fifth pillar is the development of capital infrastructure, the sixth is the ease of doing business, the seventh digitisation, and the eighth is neither strike nor disobedience to mandate. CM said that Bengal is the first state after the Covid standoff, where a physical business summit has been organised.

Bengal is the gateway to Southeast Asia, along with neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh, in addition to East and Northeast India.