Bengal pulls out all stops to placate Wipro, Infosys

Desperate to keep Wipro and Infosys happy, the state government is going all out to arrange land for them elsewhere. The two IT majors’ Kolkata plans got hit when the state government scrapped the IT Park project over the Vedic Village controversy.

At an emergency meeting of the state’s Left Front unit on Wednesday, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee told front allies that though the state government has scrapped the IT Park project, the same does not apply to Wipro and Infosys, which require 90 acres each for their expansion.

After the meeting, Left Front chairman and CPI(M) state secretary in West Bengal, Biman Bose, said the state government will arrange alternative land for Wipro and Infosys.

Commenting on the Left Front’s humiliating defeat in elections to the Siliguri Municipal Corporation, once a red bastion, Bose said the district Left Front had been asked to submit a detailed report on the reasons for defeat. “We lost by a margin of just 1.01% votes,” Bose said.