KOLKATA, India - India's West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Monday said that the ruling Left Front would come back to power in the on-going legislative elections.

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He also stated that the new government would continue with its policies of industrialization along with land distribution and development of agriculture.

"We will get a comfortable majority and we want industrialization this time," he said.

Bhattarcharjee said that owing to the initiatives of his government, the state saw an investment of 150 billion rupees ($3 billion), the highest in 20 years.

"We want to create more employment opportunities. The knowledge industries, information technology (IT) and the manufacturing sector like steel, plastics and cement are doing well in our state," he added.

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 acres were acquired for various industrial projects.

He stated that the 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.

Meanwhile, the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) Monday rejected Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement about the "dismal" situation of West Bengal in terms of education and law and order.

CPM state Secretary Biman Bose said that the Prime Minister made such remarks out of "electoral compulsions."

"Singh's comments about the state are wrong made under electoral compulsions. We understand he had to utter these things as it was a poll meeting," Bose said.

But Bose expressed confidence of Left Front having fared well in the first two phase of polls already held in West Bengal.