These include appointment of a new governor for the state, the law and order situation, the Gorkhaland issue, the setting up of the proposed airport city project — Aerotropolis — near Durgapur in Burdwan district, the state’s hold over its own coal blocks and the acute dredging problem in Haldia port.

Other Politburo members from the state Biman Bose and Nirupam Sen also left for Delhi on Friday to attend the Politburo meeting beginning Saturday.

CPM sources said that Bhattacharjee will also meet Union Home Minister P Chidambaram either tomorrow or on Sunday.

It was a week ago that the CM received a letter from Chidambaram requesting him to take steps to check the increased political violence in the state and also tackle the Maoist menace, sources said.