2,200 companies moved out of Bengal in 5 years, Rajya Sabha told | India News – Times of India
Till the 1970s, Bengal ranked second after Maharashtra in terms of number of registered companies, but had slipped to the eighth spot by 2021 NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: More than 2,200 companies moved their registered offices out of West Bengal in past five years, with at least 39 of them being listed entities, junior minister for corporate affairs Harsh Malhotra told Parliament.Malhotra's reply, in response to a set of questions from BJP MP Samik Bhattacharya in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, prompted Trinamool Congress to term the MP's questions as "biased and loaded", and accuse BJP of being "totally anti-Bengal"."The question itself was biased and loaded. BJP's only aim was to show Bengal in a poor light. The party has always done this. It gets some sort of perverse pleasure from this," TMC Rajya S...