A senior bureaucrat, while requesting anonymity, pointed out that Chakraborty’s outburst only queers the pitch that Buddhadeb has prepared over the years. Especially at a time when the State has earned the confidence of major Indian BPOs and IT companies as well as some global players in the field.

With Genpact, one of the largest BPO and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) companies, planning to recruit a large number of graduates and post-graduates from the State’s colleges and universities, the talk of “exploitation” may send the wrong signals. Genpact is also planning to set up an international training centre — the second after Hyderabad — at Salt Lake Electronics complex.

Meanwhile, The IT Minister in the LF Government, Debesh Das, today clarified that the government would never support any bandh in the IT sector.

The CM himself steered clear of the controversy today, preferring to remain silent when the media asked him about teh CITU’s bid to set up associations in the IT sector.