Kolkata: Eager to shed the anti-industry image after the Singur fiasco, Trinamool Congress supreme Mamata Banerjee has sent out a vision document to the industry prior to the West Bengal assembly elections and the feedback has been positive.
"Normally manifestos are sent to chambers of commerce, but under Mamata's instructions, we have sent our vision document to several industrialists and to people from other walks of life," Trinamool Congress Vice-President Derek
O'Brien told PTI.
The party, along with its poll manifesto, released the vision document which contained the party's policy on sectors like education, health and infrastructure.
The document, with graphical representations of the Left Front's achievements over the years in various spheres, also gave a timeline of deliverables by the Trinamool Congress if it was voted to power.
"It is an excellent gesture, but it is tough to achieve. It shows the desire to involve everybody in the process," chairman of Nicco group Rajive Kaul said.
Kaul, one among the 500 to receive the document, said "Mamata has been clarifying her pro-industry image for long. She had been inviting us at receptions and interacting on various issues. This shows she is reaching out."
Chairman of Ambuja Realty group Harsh Neotia was more forthcoming. "This is probably the first time since Independence that any political party has sent its vision on such a personal note," Neotia said.
"We used to see documents on the Internet. But here there is a personal touch. It is an ambitious document," he said.
Others in the industry sent the document included ITC chairman Y C Deveshwar, RPG group vice-chairman Sanjeev Goenka and Apeejay Group chairman Karan Paul. All of them have given a positive feedback on receiving the document, Derek said.
Besides industrialists, filmmakers and actors like Karan Johar and Aamir Khan were on the party's all-inclusive list.
Asked about the reaction of the others belonging to other streams, Derek said that they were yet to be received.
Earlier, the Trinamool Congress supremo's first move was to rope in FICCI secretary general Amit Mitra as a candidate to contest against state Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta.
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