To send the right signals to industry, Mamata Banerjee is inviting corporate bigwigs to her government?s swearing-in ceremony which is likely to be held on Wednesday. Banerjee was elected leader of the Trinamool Congress Legislature Party leader on Sunday. She said that her ministry would be small in size and includeCongress and SUCI.
Her point person in the run-up to elections, Mukul Roy, who is also Union minister of state for shipping, told FE that the party was calling up almost all the industrialists to whom the TMC had sent its manifesto or ?vision document.? ?We had sent the vision document to around 500 people across the country, of whom more than 100 were industrialists. We are sending invites to almost all of them. Now it is for them to decide whether to attend (the oath-taking ceremony) not,? Roy said.
In fact, TMC had sent its vision document to a cross-section of people from industry to IT honchos to entertainment ranging from Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani, Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata, IT stalwarts Narayana Murthy and Azim Premji, ITC chairman Yogi Deveshwar, Aamir Khan, Karan Johar and so forth.
Incidentally, Ratan Tata is arriving in Kolkata on Monday for a ?soft launch? of the Tata Medical Centre in Rajarhat. In 2006, when then chief minister Buddadeb Bhattacharjee had invited Tatas to set up the car project at Singur, Ratan Tata had also promised to give Kolkata a cancer hospital so that people wouldn?t have to rush to Tatas? cancer hospital in Mumbai.
After the 2009 parliamentary election win, Mamata has been trying her best to woo industry, even restraining her party workers from calling bandhs.