The university's Kennedy School of Government wants the chief minister to deliver the keynote address at the India Exchange programme scheduled in February, 2017 but, Mamata Banerjee prefers to go to the US in the later half of 2017 and showcase Bengal as an investment destination.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 1 November 2016.
The preference of USA over Harvard is that US-India Business Council has invited Mamata to the USA. THe invitation is from USIBC chairman Ajay Banga - the MasterCard global CEO. He has promised the CM to arrange for an investors' meet in the US.
Moreover, she has also got an invite from under secretary (political affairs) Thomas A Shannon to Washington DC. This happened when he met Mamata in Kolkata on July 1.
It is understood that she might stop over at Boston - where Harvard, MIT and Tufts Universities are situated - in the course of the proposed US tour.
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