The 34-year uninterrupted rule in West Bengal led to shortcomings and flaws creeping into the CPI-M which need to be discarded, party General Secretary Prakash Karat on Wednesday said.
"The 34-year-long rule caused some shortcomings and flaws, we have to identify these and get rid of them," he told the 23rd state congress of CPI-M here.
"Both leaders and workers committed such mistakes," party Politburo member Nirupam Sen said quoting Karat when asked who were involved in such activities.
"We have to rectify ourselves as the long rule has injected some drawbacks which is not expected of Communists. "A section of people left us because of this, but we have to win over those who lost confidence in us," Sen said quoting Karat. Sen said the Trinamool Congress-led government's policies and activities were fast causing disillusionment. He, however, said "it is too early to comment. It is in power for eight months only."
He took a dig at the ruling party saying "but morning shows the day. People's wish for better governance for which it had voted us out of power has not been fulfilled and the state is on a downslide."
Regarding land acquisition, which played a crucial role in the downfall of the Left Front government last year, he said the policies and flaws in it would be discussed, but added that industrialisation was a must for advancement of the state.