Mamata's oath ceremony list has Buddha, Tatas

From top honchos of the Tata Group to family members of the deceased Singur girl Tapasi Malik - all have been invited to Mamata Banerjee's historic swearing- in ceremony on Friday.

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मई 20, 2011

From top honchos of the Tata Group to family members of the deceased Singur girl Tapasi Malik - all have been invited to Mamata Banerjee's historic swearing- in ceremony on Friday.

The list of invitees has names like Tata Steel Processing and Distribution's managing director Sandipan Chakravorty, Tata Metaliks managing director Harsh K. Jha and many other who's who of the corporate industry. Prasoon Mukherjee, chairman of Universal Success Ltd, who was instrumental in bringing Indonesia's Salim Group to set up a chemical hub and other projects in Bengal, is also expected to be present, sources said.

In a friendly gesture to her political opponents, Banerjee also invited outgoing CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and his wife Meera. Trinamool's deputy leader in West Bengal legislative assembly Partha Chatterjee on Thursday went to Buddhadeb's residence to hand over the invitation. Once arch rivals, they also exchanged greetings setting a unique example of political courtesy in the state after a long time.

Earlier, the Trinamool Congress and the Left parties shared a bitter relationship as the conflicts over land acquisition since 2006 reached a feverish pitch.According to CPM sources, Buddhadeb and state Left Front chairman Biman Bose are likely to attend the grand occasion.

On Tuesday evening, the chief minister in- waiting Mamata, herself, went to meet expelled CPIM leader and former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee at his south Kolkata residence and invited him to the event. Former West Bengal CM Siddhartha Shankar Roy's family has also been invited to the ceremony. Roy passed away in November last year.

The family members of Nandigram and Netai victims, the bereaved parents of Tapasi Malik and members of the Sai family in Burdwan district have also been invited on behalf of the Trinamool Congress. The security arrangements in and around the Governor's House were heightened on Thursday. Kolkata Police commissioner R. K. Pachnanda along with other senior city police officials reviewed the security arrangements near the Raj Bhavan and the Dalhousie area.

 

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