Barrackpore:
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today 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 CPI-M leader said at a public meeting in North 24-Parganas district organised by the Left Front.
"We have asked such partymen to leave," he said.
While claiming that the CPM was committed to industrialisation, Bhattacharjee noted that the party had lost in this industrial township during the last Lok Sabha polls and appealed to the youth who have left the party to return to the fold.
CPM candidate Tarit Topdar had lost the 2009 Lok Sabha elections from Barrackpore, a seat which he held since 1989, to Trinamool Congress' Dinesh Trivedi.
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.
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 jibe at Mamata Banerjee, Bhattacharjee said, "There are 84 engineering colleges in the state, where will the passouts go? Just chanting 'ma, mati, manush' won't do."
Taking a dig on the Railway Minister laying foundation stones of several rail projects in the state, the chief minister said, "This is not so easy. There is a difference between promising thousands of jobs and actually giving those."