In the wake of the decision taken by the Bengal Left Front, all Left Front members of parliament would take up every developmental issue of the state pending with the BJP-led union government. They would also pursue these issues with the concerned departments and provide appropriate feedbacks to the Bengal Left Front.

Left front chairman and CPI (M) leader Biman Basu communicated this to INN at the Muzaffar Ahmad Bhavan.

Biman Basu said that since " Bengal is not a sovereign republic, the issues that it has pending with the BJP government are also to be considered as matters of national importance and not something to be dubbed exclusively as Bengal’s problems."

"The Left Front MPs had primary responsibility to the people of Bengal," said Biman Basu, "since it were they who had elected them" and added to say that "it devolves on them to pursue matters of Bengal pending with the union government and take advantage of parliamentary question hour plus sessions of the standing and the consultative committees."

Asked to identify and comment on the pending issues that the Left MPs will take up, pursue, and highlight before the country, Biman Basu said that these were:

• Flood relief of which the union government has released only a small part (a sum of Rs 103 crore) of the sanctioned Rs 1487 crore. The MPs will demand that the better part of the sanctioned funds is given as grant-in-aid rather than loan.
• The wagon industry in Bengal is in virtual recession because of the drastic reduction in the annual order of the union government from 20,000 wagons to mere 7.5 thousand wagons. The MPs will ask for restoration of the earlier order.
• The MPs will ask the union government to continue with the public distribution system just as the Bengal Left Front government has chosen to persist with it. The union government would also be asked to provide adequate levels of rationing support to those living below the poverty line.
• A strident demand regarding the monthly supply of a minimum of 1.16-lakh kilolitres worth of kerosene oil to Bengal would be made.
• The MPs shall also raise the issue of the threat of closure hanging over 64 coalmines and ask the union government not to go in for the winding up of even one coalfield.
• The MPs will focus attention to the need for modernization of the Bagdogra airport in the Darjeeling district, for that airport is recognized as the gateway to the entire north-east India and currently cannot accommodate night take-offs and landings because of lack of adequate runway lights and an absence of electronic night-landing equipment.
• Similarly, a demand will be made to start international flights of Aeroflot and the Indian Airlines de novo to Singapore from the large Netaji Subhas International airport in Kolkata because the metropolis forms an articulated opening to both east and south-east Asia from the sub-continent.