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Bengal is ready for investment: Mamata tells business leaders in UK

| | Jul 30, 2015, at 03:10 am
London, July 29 (IBNS) Addressing business leaders in the UK, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said West Bengal is ready for accepting investments and the 'perception' of the state is changing.

"I'm not from a business background, I'm a street fighter. U know better, Bengal is ready for investment," TMC MP Derek O'Brien tweeted quoting Banerjee as saying in the Asia House here.

"Perception of Bengal has to change and is changing. That is why I am here in London to meet you," she said.

After meeting Banerjee, politician Lord Swraj Paul tweeted: "CM Mamata Banerjee - delightful, modest, erudite and wholehearted in her mission to advance W Bengal."

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