“I am Deeply Shocked With VG Siddhartha Incident,” West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

Mumbai: Terming the death of Cafe Coffee Day owner VG Siddhartha as “unfortunate” West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said it’s a very dangerous signal if all leave the country like this.

She said that the business tycoon was depressed due to “harassment from different agencies.”

I’m feeling sad today because it should not be the future of the industry or agriculture.”

“I am deeply shocked by the incident relating to VG Siddhartha, Coffee Cafe Day founder. It is indeed very sad and very unfortunate.”

“From what he has expressed (in his letter), it appears that he was greatly depressed due to harassment and pressure from different agencies for which he could not run his business in a peaceful manner,” Mamata Banerjee wrote on her Facebook wall on Wednesday.

“I hear from different sources that captains of industry in the country are under pressure; some of them have left the country and some are contemplating to move out. All the opposition political parties are afraid of horse-trading and harassment with a political vendetta,” Mamata Banerjee stated extending her condolences to Siddhartha’s family members.

Appealing the center she asked them to work in a peaceful manner to help the people live in confidence and “political vendetta and agencies do not destroy the future of the country”.

“My appeal to the government is that when you have been elected, you have to work in a peaceful manner so that people are confident and that political vendetta and agencies do not destroy the future of the country,” Banerjee wrote.

The body of Cafe Coffee Day founder V G Siddhartha, who went missing, was found on Wednesday in the Netravati river in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka after 36 hours of intense search, officials said.

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