CPM leaders,workers committed mistakes: Buddha

Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday admitted that some CPM leaders and workers had committed mistakes creating a distance between the people and the ruling party. A section of partymen and leaders through their arrogance and anti-people moves had alienated people in some areas in the state,Bhattacharjee said. “We have to bow our heads and go to the people who have not taken such behaviour lightly,” the CPM leader said at a public meeting in North 24-Parganas district. “We have asked such partymen to leave,” he added. While claiming that the CPM was committed to industrialisation,Bhattacharjee noted that the party had lost in the industrial township of Barrackpore during the last Lok Sabha polls and appealed to the youth who have left the party to return to the fold.

Gunning for both Congress and Trinamool Congress,Bhattacharjee said that while the Congress was to be blamed for all the state’s past ills,the latter was a party of irresponsible people bent on taking the state on the path of anarchy. “They are talking about ‘paribartan’ (change). The only change that they can bring about is taking the state backwards instead of on the path of development,” Bhattacharjee said.

Attacking the Congress for past ills and flight of capital from the state during its rule till 1977,the chief minister said Trinamool Congress’ suicidal politics was forcing industries to leave the state. He claimed the economy of Singur would have changed for the better if the Tata Nano plant had been set up there and allowed people to earn more than whatever they had been earning from doing agriculture.

Taking a dig at Mamata Banerjee,Bhattacharjee said: “Just chanting ma,mati,manush won’t do.”