Predicting a comfortable win for the Left Front in the West Bengal Assembly polls, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said the new government would continue with its policies of industrialisation along with land distribution and development of agriculture.
"We will get a comfortable majority," the chief minister said at a 'Meet-the-Press' programme when asked about the prospects of the Left Front in the ongoing Assembly polls.
Stating that the new government would continue the Front's policies of land distribution and agricultural development, Bhattacharjee said, "we also want industrialisation."
He said owing to the initiatives of his government, the state saw an investment of Rs 15,000 crores, the highest in 20 years. "We want to create more employment opportunities. The knowledge industries, IT and the manufacturing sector like steel, plastics and cement are doing well in our state."
Land for new industries would be acquired in accordance with the land use map. "The acquisition would be done through consensus by offering remunerative prices and a rehabilitation package. Also, acquisition of fertile land would be avoided as much as possible," Bhattacharjee said.
Denying that the government had stopped land acquisition since the agitation at Singur that stalled the Tata Motors small car factory, the chief minister said that since then, 81,000 acre were acquired for various industrial projects.