According to media reports, infrastructure giant Larsen and Toubro (L&T) is set to sign a binding agreement to buy out Cafe Coffee Day founder V.G. Siddhartha's 20.4 per cent stake in the company. Siddhartha has accounted the maximum shares in Mindtree.
The reports spoke of a hostile takeover bid by the engineering major, which may make an open offer to increase its stake to 51 per cent in Mindtree.
In the wake of the fragile situation, Bagchi said he was returning to the company which he co-founded in 1999 along with Ashok Soota, Namakal Parthasarathy, Krishnakumar Natarajan and Scott Staples.
"An imminent threat of hostile takeover of Mindtree has made me to resign from the Government to be able to go, save the company," Bagchi tweeted.
"I must protect the Tree from people who have arrived with bulldozers & saw chains to cut it down so that in its place, they can build a shopping mall."
Meanwhile, the board of IT player Mindtree will meet on Wednesday to consider a share buyback programme to avert the hostile takeover bid by the L&T Infotech, said a report of news agecy IANS quoting company sources.
Mindtree shares rose over 2 per cent in early trade on the Bombay Stock Exchange on Monday.