05-13-2006, 11:57 PM
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New Delhi, May 13 (PTI) Fresh from the spectacular poll victory, CPI(M) posterboy of reforms Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said the party cannot afford to stick to dogmas and he was a "communist compromising with capitalism" to develop West Bengal.
"I know what I am doing in West Bengal. What is the alternative? If we have to develop, we need capital," he told CNN-IBN news channel while making it clear that he remains a communist to the core.
"I am a Communist, compromising with capitalism," said the 62-year-old leader, who lead the party to a spectacular win to retain power for a record seventh consecutive term in the Left citadel.
Admitting that the party has made many mistakes in the 60s and 70s, the chief minister said he and his colleagues were fully committed to reforms.
"The old is changing. We are not fools, we are realists, We cannot stick to our dogmas," he was quoted as saying in a release by the television channel.
He said CPI(M) remains fully committed to communist principles and to maintaining its rural organisation. But he also said there is no alternative to encouraging private capital to come to West Bengal due to widespread joblessness and poverty.
In the changing global scenario, industrialisation and foreign investment were needed to generate jobs for millions of educated youth especially in manufacturing and knowledge-based industries.
To a question, he said "it is impossible to create socialism in one state of India alone. PTI
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New Delhi, May 13 (PTI) Fresh from the spectacular poll victory, CPI(M) posterboy of reforms Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said the party cannot afford to stick to dogmas and he was a "communist compromising with capitalism" to develop West Bengal.
"I know what I am doing in West Bengal. What is the alternative? If we have to develop, we need capital," he told CNN-IBN news channel while making it clear that he remains a communist to the core.
"I am a Communist, compromising with capitalism," said the 62-year-old leader, who lead the party to a spectacular win to retain power for a record seventh consecutive term in the Left citadel.
Admitting that the party has made many mistakes in the 60s and 70s, the chief minister said he and his colleagues were fully committed to reforms.
"The old is changing. We are not fools, we are realists, We cannot stick to our dogmas," he was quoted as saying in a release by the television channel.
He said CPI(M) remains fully committed to communist principles and to maintaining its rural organisation. But he also said there is no alternative to encouraging private capital to come to West Bengal due to widespread joblessness and poverty.
In the changing global scenario, industrialisation and foreign investment were needed to generate jobs for millions of educated youth especially in manufacturing and knowledge-based industries.
To a question, he said "it is impossible to create socialism in one state of India alone. PTI
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