An important Left Front meeting has been called on Wednesday by the LF committee chairman Biman Bose ostensibly to discuss agitational and other programme of the Left parties after the puja festivities, but sources said the CPM wants to push through alternative land proposals for Infosys and Wipro or try and find a solution.

Following the scrapping of the Rajarhat IT park project after the Vedic Village land grab incident came to light, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had asked his IT minister Debesh Das to look for an alternative so that these two companies could be retained at any cost. The CPM has already approved CM’s idea for alternative land.

Housing Minister Goutam Deb has already proposed that he can allot 10 acres each for Wipro and Infosys. But CPM sources said it may not be acceptable to the companies, which want 90 acres each. “They have their plans, but the government will have to provide land according to their plan,” said a CPM leader.

“I do not know anything about the housing minister’s proposal. I never discussed the issue with Deb,” said the IT minister. If the LF approves an alternative land proposal for these two IT majors, there will be no problem for acquisition of land in an area close to Rajarhat. “They want land in a close proximity to the airport,” sources in the party said.

Meanwhile, the 83-member state CPM committee will hold a meeting on Thursday to discuss the Vedic Village controversy following which the IT projects were cancelled. Earlier, state party secretary Biman Bose received a report from Land and Land Reforms Minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah on the Vedic Village controversy, but the party leaders are yet to accept the same.