Bengal business jamboree turns biennial

ater, while talking to journalists, she said the government has decided to opt for a biennial format as most states also hold the show every second year. "We could have held it just for the sake of it. But we have decided not to do that and give enough time for the projects to get implemented," Mamata explained later in the day. The decision on the event, where notable industrialists such as Mukesh Ambani, Lakshmi Mittal and Sajjan Jindal had participated in the past, came amid the changed political landscape of Bengal.BJP has cornered 18 seats in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls, tailing Banerjee's Trinamul Congress, which managed to secure 22 seats, down from 34 in 2014, despite being in an absolute majority in the state assembly. "It is possible that she intends to focus her energy to regain grassroots support before the crucial Assembly elections, which is officially slated for 2021. BGBS would have been a distraction before that," an industry observer commented after the formal announcement.Despite riding a wave of popular dissent on forcible land acquisition, especially for private industry, which brought the Trinamul to power in 2011, Banerjee's government introduced an annual industry summit called "Bengal Leads" in 2012.The edition died a premature death a year later only to come back in a swankier avatar in 2015 under Amit Mitra who took over as the industry minister from Partha Chatterjee at the end of 2013.A section of industry questioned at times the efficacy of holding such summits which usually promise big bucks but falls short in implementation, not just in Bengal but everywhere in the country. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://knowledge.thinkingstorm.com/UserProfile/tabid/57/userId/310387/Default.aspx