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Newly inducted Bengal Industries Minister Tapas Roy connected Wednesday (June 10, 2026) said that helium wants to bring successful investments from the Tata Group successful a "big way" and nonstop a connection that Bengal was acceptable for an concern revival.
He said efforts would besides beryllium made to bring backmost much than 6,500 enterprises and entrepreneurs who had shifted their operations retired of the State implicit the years.
Portfolios were allocated among Ministers connected Wednesday, 10 days aft the swearing-in of the extended Cabinet of the BJP authorities successful West Bengal.
Speaking to reporters aft portfolio allotments, Mr. Roy said the BJP authorities would enactment to reconstruct capitalist assurance successful West Bengal, and alleged the erstwhile Trinamool Congress authorities had wounded capitalist sentiment.
"My precedence volition beryllium to bring backmost the Tatas successful a large mode successful the State. The concern created by the erstwhile TMC-led authorities was pathetic. We privation to nonstop a beardown connection that Bengal is acceptable for manufacture erstwhile again," helium said.
"We volition clasp talks with industrialists and concern leaders crossed the state and overseas to pull investments. Bengal offers immense opportunities successful manufacturing, services and renewable vigor sectors," Mr. Roy said.
In 2008, Tata Motors abandoned plans to acceptable up a small-car mill present amid relentless protests. The exit has caused a seismic displacement successful the State's governmental landscape, unseating the Left Front and propelling Mamata Banerjee to power.
The Minister said the authorities would absorption connected creating an industry-friendly environment, ensuring easiness of doing concern and generating employment opportunities for the State's youth.
A seasoned politician, Mr. Roy began his governmental vocation successful Congress earlier joining the Trinamool Congress, wherever helium emerged arsenic a salient organisational person and legislator.
He resigned from the Trinamool Congress up of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and joined the BJP, citing differences with the enactment leadership.
He subsequently became 1 of the BJP's salient faces successful Bengal authorities and won from the Maniktala Assembly constituency.
In a caller interrogation with PTI, West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya had said the State authorities wants the Tata Group to instrumentality to Singur, describing it arsenic some an economical necessity and a almighty awesome that the State is again unfastened for business.
The departure of the Nano task and the consequent dismantling of the near-complete mill sent shockwaves done firm India, creating an enduring cognition of argumentation uncertainty and absorption to large-scale concern projects successful the State.
However, the TMC had countered the claim, with the party's Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien connected Saturday (June 6, 2026) highlighted the Tata Group's beingness and enlargement successful West Bengal implicit the past 15 years. Former West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra had besides backed the State's concern record.
