The RSP, a major partner of the CPI(M) in the ruling Left Front, made it clear to its big brother party on Friday that it had failed “to correct the flaws in its policy even after back-to-back poll debacles in the state.”
Pointing finger at the process of land acquisition by chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, RSP leader Kshiti Goswami said to CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose that the Left Front has had it’s nemesis in its policy of land acquisition vis-à-vis the industrialisation drive.
The two constituents of the Left Front held a bipartite meeting on Friday to find a way to check the onslaught of the Trinamul Congress in the state before the Assembly polls in 2011. During the meeting, senior RSP leaders Mr Goswami, Biswanath Chowdhury and Manoj Bhattacharya said to CPI(M)’s Mr Bose and Benoy Konar that the CPI(M) was not “sincere enough to admit its lapses in the land acquisition policy”. “Instead of owning his lapses in the arbitrary land acquisition policy, the chief minister went on to say before the civic polls that industrialisation will continue and this eventually paved the way for the debacle in the state,” Mr Goswami was quoted as saying to the CPI(M) leaders.
Explaining their party stand, that they are not against the industry, Mr Goswami said, “It would have been more effective had we initiated labour-intensive industry projects instead of capital-intensive projects. This would have generated more jobs in the state.”