Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to visit London for a week and deliver a lecture at the University of Oxford later this month.

According to the state administration sources, CM Banerjee has been invited by the Oxford University in connection to her social welfare projects that she took during her regime in West Bengal.  The lecture is scheduled on March 27.

A senior official of state administration said, “Mamata Banerjee has accepted the invitation and is likely to deliver a speech on social welfare schemes at Oxford University. After that, she may hold a business conclave in London as well.”

She was invited to deliver the lecture by the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University Jonathan Michie, during the Bengal Global Business Summit in November 2023.

According to the state administration sources, CM Mamata Banerjee will travel to London via Dubai on March 21 and return to Kolkata on March 29. During this trip she may hold meetings with industrialists in Dubai as well as in London.

CM Banerjee will be accompanied by leading businessmen and industrialists during her trip, administration sources said.

In September 2023, Mamata Banerjee visited Spain for a business summit and spoke with different delegations in Madrid and Barcelona. She was accompanied by former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly and other leading businessmen and industrialists of Bengal.

At the Dubai airport, CM Banerjee had also met with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe.

“Last time during the Spain tour, Sourav Ganguly joined us. Now, we are again expecting Ganguly to join us in London.. Many leading businessmen will also accompany this tour of London,” said sources in the administration.