Corruption has affected CPM rank,file: Buddhadeb

He said there was a need to improve the quality and ideological understanding of the comrades.

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has admitted corruption has influenced CPI(M) rank and file and some of its leaders are behaving like “local kings” who do not go to the people.

“We are living in a society which is basically corrupt” and it had influenced “our leaders and our boys” too,he said adding,however,Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress was not the change Bengal needed as they “do not have any programme or policy”.

“Some (CPI-M) leaders are behaving like local kings. They don’t go to the people,they just dictate. We are sorting out these problems. We have identified a good number of leaders,we have warned them,we have punished them,” he told a newspaper in an interview.

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The Chief Minister said there was a need to improve the quality and ideological understanding of the comrades. “I don’t think everything has gone wrong. But we have to change,No doubt about it,” he said.

Asked whether he had offered to resign earlier following electoral setbacks,he answered in the negative and said it was not a question of an individual’s resignation.

He dismissed reports linking his absence at CPI(M) leadership meetings in New Delhi to the party’s Bengal unit’s unhappiness with the central leadership and said he never skipped any deliberations deliberately.

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