Bloc state general secretary Ashok Ghosh had called the meeting to discuss the situation after the Dinhata police firing incident that left five Bloc supporters dead.

The Bloc demanded that the guilty police officers be punished and all cases against Bloc’s Dinhata leaders be dropped. They also demanded a judicial inquiry into the police firing.

After emerging from the meeting, the leaders of three parties maintained that they agreed with the Bloc’s demands.

The mini front, which was formed after the police firing at Nandigram on March 14, last year to build pressure on Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and the CPM as a whole, had gone defunct recently. But, the Dinhata incident managed to revive the unit once again.

RSP sources said leaving the Left Front will not be a prudent decision for the smaller partners. “Keeping in mind the ensuing panchayat elections, it was decided by the mini Left Front that CPM had to be kept under constant pressure to ensure the entity of the smaller parties,” a source said.

RSP leader and state PWD minister Kshiti Goswami said: “CPM is still treading a wrong path. We want to impress upon them that they should leave their present course of action in the best interest of the Front as a whole.”

“We are not leaving the Left Front, but that does not mean that we are going to ease the pressure on CPM. If we do that, then we will be the losers,” said a senior RSP leader.