The Left Front ruled government of West Bengal has put on hold DLF's Rs.30,000 crore Dankuni Township project,  20 km west of Kolkata, on the national highway corridor. The reason of shelving the project is because in the panchayat elections held in May 2008, Trinamul Congress won most of the seats at all the three tiers.

Earlier to execute the project, the government in association with the three-tier local self government bodies of zilla parishad (district council), panchayat samity (district association) and gram panchayats (village councils), all so long under Left Front control, had set up a land procurement committee to take over land, through negotiations with owners.

Now the opposition party (Trinamul Congress) demanded that all notifications relating to acquisition of the land issued in the past be scrapped immediately.

For the township project, a total of 4,840 acres was to be taken over, with 4,069 acres out of that earmarked for residential projects and 750 acres for industrial parks. The state government, had originally proposed that the entire land for the project will be procured by the government agency Kolkata Municipal Development Authority (KMDA) directly from farmers with their consent.

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