Describing her meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as “positive, constructive and creative”, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said the former assured her of American investment in the state for its business and economic development, considering Bengal as a “partner state”.

Soon after the meeting with Clinton at the state secretariat, the chief minister said, “For a long time, there has not been any US investment in the state. After the change in political scenario, they said that the US would favour investment in Bengal.”