During an all-party meeting in Darjeeling on Thursday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said an industry meet would be held in March.
Ms. Banerjee said Darjeeling has the potential for industry in software, tourism and horticulture and she would ask industrialists to attend the meet.
“Let us forget what happened [in the past]. The political parties and their ideology will remain but let us come together for the development of the hills,” Ms. Banerjee said.
The Chief Minister’s visit to Darjeeling hills, which comes after eight months and the first since the hills braved a 104-day shutdown, assumes a lot of political significance.
On her first day, Ms. Banerjee inaugurated a road in the name of Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) founder Subhas Ghising. Ghising, who spearheaded the movement for a separate State of Gorkhaland for decades, was sent into political oblivion by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung in 2007.
