Tuesday, October 18 2005 19:08 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Kolkata: West Bengal Government today (Oct 18, 2005) warned against any bid to create law and order problem during the proposed visit to the city of the Chief Executive of Indonesia-based Salim group Beni Santosa to discuss the group's proposed projects in the state on October 20 with the administration.

Taking a serious view of the main opposition Trinamool Congress' threats of laying a siege to some areas of the city to block the arrival of Beni Santosa that day, state's Home Secretary P R Roy told sources today that additional police arrangements had been made to ensure law and order.

"Police will take appropriate action if anybody tries to create law and order problem", Roy said, adding that security had been tightened to thwart any disruptive activity on October 20.

Officials said that the Indonesian industrialist was scheduled to meet Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee at Writers' Buildings on October 20 afternoon.

Asked about Santosa's tour schedules, the sources could not confirm the same.

Santosa will make a transit halt in Kolkata during his return to Jakarta from Russia, they said.

The Salim group is in the midst of controversy over agricultural land to be given to it for projects in West Bengal, with the Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee threatening to take to streets by her followers from noon to 3:00 pm to protest the Buddhadev Bhattacharjee Government's move to hand over agricultural land to the 'black-listed Salim group'.

"We will not allow this. We will fight to the end," Banerjee said.