Pranab, Mamata discuss Bengal finance

Union Finance Minster Pranab Mukherjee and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met here on Sunday along with state finance minister Amit Mitra and announced that short, medium and long term measures are being worked out to rejuvenate the state’s economy.

“We are working out short term, mid term and long term measures. The state’s economy is in a state of disaster,” Mamata Banerjee said.

Mukherjee said he would try to help the state in every way.

Mamata urged Mukherjee to help the state from centre and invited him to visit the state secretariat Writers’ Buildings.

“I invite you for tea with us at Writers. We will offer you tea, but you bring us the sweets,” Mamata said in a jocular vein.

The meeting assumes significance with Mamata Banerjee promising an economic rejuvenation of West Bengal having dislodged the 34-year-old Left Front rule in the state.

Banerjee took oath as the eleventh Chief Minister of West Bengal on May 20 and gained control of Writers’ Buildings, the red-painted edifice of power in the control of Left Front for 34 years.