At business summit, Mamata makes investors sing

Before that she had called out "SAIL" (Steel Authority of India Limited) a few times looking for its chairman, who had stayed away. A woman representing the company rose from her seat, and Banerjee made her to parrot her claims that the PSU was setting up a Rs.20,000 crore project.

The chief minister also made a faux-pas in identifying a senior business manager.

"Deveswarji is here, give him a mike," Banerjee said pointing towards ITC executive director Kurush Grant mistaking him for company chairman Y.C. Deveswar.

Looking a bit embarrassed, Grant stood up. "Mr Deveswar is in Delhi. I am Kurush Grant representing the ITC."

Some of the investors listed the problems they were facing. Banerjee asked one of them "This is your company, run it well", while another was told "This is a problem which the centre can solve. I shall take it up with the prime minister".

She directed some of them to the bureaucrats concerned, calling the officials either by their first names or names of the departments. "MSME, MSME,", she called out to locate the medium, small and micro enterprises secretary.