Last time the biggest guests at Mamata Banerjee's Bengal Global Business Summit were four from Indian ministers from the Narendra Modi government.
Assembly Elections of India were just four months away, but Arun Jaitley, Nitin Gadkari, Suresh Prabhu, Piyush Goel promised Bengal a bonanza, reports NDTV.
This time, Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley did not attend the summit; even though his name was number four on the invitation card to the opening session, after President Pranab Mukherjee, Governor Kesari Nath Tripathi and Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal.
Given the head-on confrontation between Mamata Banerjee and Indian PM Narendra Modi on demonetization, no one is surprised at the turn of events.
However, the star of the show, President Pranab Mukherjee fully backed his host's bid to woo business to Bengal and sent out a message to her and to the missing guest, Arun Jaitley. "When I was sent the invitation to attend the meet, I thought whether it will be proper to do that as President of the republic.
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