West Bengal’s loss may be a gain for states like Maharashtra in attracting investment, but politics of business in Maharashtra is only intensifying and thus hurting the industry.

In the wake of the latest controversy created by the alleged remark of Samajwadi Party leader and actor Jaya Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan has said that none of what Jaya said had any malice.

However, Amitabh's apology may just about pacify Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray, but big businesses in Maharashtra are already bearing the brunt.

One such causality is the sprawling Infosys Campus in Pune, the company’s largest ever with 25,000 seat capacity.

An anti north India sentiment has seen 3,000 construction workers on the building site down to 1700 odd.

"We are behind schedule by 6 months and the government is helpless. The situation has calmed a bit but workers are still not coming back," said TV Mohandas Pai, Director-HR, Infosys.

Maharashtra is losing in a big way, as space crunch at its BPO facility in Pune has prompted it to send 3,000 of the company's new recruits to Chennai.

Experts say many other companies not coming out in the open yet about project delays may start to report the same sooner than later.

NDTV tried to contact the Maharashtra government but failed to get any response. But it is clear that the battle between politicians and actors is clearly affecting business something which the state of Maharashtra doesn’t really need right now.