The Opposition parties on Wednesday dismissed the investments announced by the country’s leading industrialists as “false promises” and called the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) a “spectacle”.
Leader of Opposition in Assembly and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari wrote on X: “Let’s not forget that the BGBS summit is neither about business, and is far from being global. It’s an event where glossy lies are showcased to the people of West Bengal. Would the Chief Minister (Mamata Banerjee) dare to inform the people of West Bengal, how much of the proposed Investment of Rs 3.76 lakh crore, announced in BGBS 2023, have been invested till now?”
“It’s a two-day optical illusion event, consciously wrapped up in glossy paper to hide the industrialisation drought of Bengal. With Mamata Banerjee at the helm of affairs, Bengal doesn’t and can’t mean business,” he added.
The CPI(M) also criticised the CM for making “fake promises” at the business summit. CPI(M) central committee member Sujan Chakraborty said, “What she says at the business summit and signs MoU, one per cent of it has not been invested in the past. We saw on eighth occasions the CM giving speeches at the business summit, but the state government can’t give one example that the CM is inaugurating an industry.”
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