kolkata chief minister mamata banerjee is betting big on the twoday bengal global business summit that gets underway at salt lake stadium on wednesday morning with many corporate heavyweights confirming attendance this bigticket event is bengals best bet to shake off its old ghosts and showcase itself as an attractive investment destination while godrej group chairman adi godrej and mahindra group cmd anand mahindra will add weight to the summit the presence of union ministers arun jaitley and nitin gadkari will add a dash of political spice the inaugural session promises to be an interesting one given that mamata will share the dais with union finance minister jaitley who is likely to mention the new land acquisition ordinance that makes it easier for industry to acquire land mamata who rode to power on an antiacquisition wave opposes the ordinance strongly and industry circles are agog with speculation on how mamata would react to jaitleys probable tomtoming of the industryfriendly measure the jaitleymamata chemistry will be interesting to watch in deeply polarized and pollbound bengal where bjp has sprung up as a surprise challenger to trinamool hegemony the cm realizes that she desperately needs some positives to take to the masses and is pulling all stops to attract investment and thereby create jobs mamata will speak three times at the summit first to deliver the welcome address then a session later in the afternoon and the valedictory address on thursday afternoon state government officials say a host of industry bigwigs including adi godrej anand mahindra itc chairman y c deveshwar yes bank chairman rana kapoor n hiranandani of hinranandani group edelweiss group chairman r shah great eastern energy chairman y k modi and the lalit group chief jyotsna suri are likely to attend the summit however top draws like mukesh ambani anil ambani and tata group chairman cyrus mistry have not confirmed their participation as yet the inaugural session will include an address by bengal finance minister amit mitra and the screening of a short film made by west bengal industrial development corporation that will showcase bengals investment potential the inauguration will be followed by a session where indian business leaders will speak on their expectations from the bengal government and their experience of doing business in this state one session in the afternoon will be addressed by union road transport minister nitin gadkari and this will be followed by another where global business leaders like mitsubishi chemicals global ceo h ishizuka ukindia business council chair patricia hewitt top executives of samsumg electronics of korea and changi airports of singapore and korea tradeinvestment promotion agency kotra director f h kim will talk about doing business here mamata will deliver a 20minute address after this the sessions will be interspersed with businesstobusiness and governmenttobusiness interactions and a lot of networking between industrialists senior government officials and corporate bigwigs say officials the second day of the summit will have parallel breakaway business sessions presentation of the outcomes of these sessions