In what was described a "courtesy visit', Mr Anthony Salim, the Salim group chief spent more than an hour closeted in a meeting with Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, chief minister and Mr Nirupam Sen, state industries minister and senior officials at Writers' Buildings even as the city lay paralysed following a strike call by Trinamul Congress today. While Mr Salim declared that his group will go whichever way the state government asks with regard to its projects in the state, he also speculated the possibility of launching new projects in healthcare and food processing, reports said. Mr Salim was accompanied by Mr Benni Santasso, the group CEO and other officials. Today's visit, during which Mr Salim discussed the progress of his group's projects, comes in the wake of the Left Front's dismal showing in the recently concluded panchayat elections. Incidentally, the Salim projects are mostly located in South and North-24-Parganas where unexpected victories of the Trinamul Congress and SUCI candidates in the panchayat elections have created cracks in the red citadel. While the Opposition parties have captured the zilla parishad in South-24-Parganas, the Left Front have been reduced to a minority in gram panchayat and panchayat samity levels in North-24-Parganas. Mr Salim is not worried at the delay in the progress of the projects and it will be seen to it that there is consensus with the people in the areas where the projects are coming up, a senior official said. n SNS