Accusing some media houses of spreading "malicious lies" about her recent Singapore visit, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said a large number of investors have evinced interest in pumping money in the state.

Banerjee said the industrialists, who accompanied her to Singapore, were surprised at the "extent of malicious lies" peddled against the state.

"A large number of foreign investors are keen to pump in money in the state. I am happy to tell you that many of those who had left Bengal in the past, are willing to return. We have opened the roads of rapid industrialisation," she said at a rally organised by the Trinamool Congress Chhattra Parishad, the party's student wing.