A guideline for party ministers and austerity drive were among some of the proposals cleared by the CPI (M) Polit Bureau to rectify the "wrong trends" crept into the party.
A guideline for party ministers and austerity drive were among some of the proposals cleared by the CPI (M) Politburo today to rectify the "wrong trends" which have crept into the party.
With cadre raising complaints about the functioning of ministers, CPI (M) sources said, the Politburo has also formulated a guideline, which lists the do's and don'ts, for ministers and those at parliamentary levels.
The guideline is understood to have decided to ask the ministers not to appoint relatives in private staff and if they do so, they will have to take the permission of the leadership concerned.
These understandings were reached at a Politburo meeting held here during the day to give final touches to the "rectification document" which will be forwarded to the Central Committee for ratification. The Central Committee will meet here later this month.
The meeting also saw the attendance of West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who had skipped several meetings of CPI (M) central leadership.
"All wrong trends in the party will be rectified. The rectification will be done at all levels," Polit Bureau member MK Pandhe told reporters.
The CPI (M) will also ask its cadre and leaders not to fall for a neo-liberal lifestyle and adopt austerity measures even as it today criticised the Congress' similar drive.
"We have seen the austerity of Congress style. The style in which an MP buys an economy class ticket, sits in the economy class till the flight takes off and then moves to business class.
"This is not the style of austerity which we are talking about," CPI (M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury told reporters here.
There has been criticism within the party that some leaders were not leading life according to the ideology and that corruption, nepotism and influence of money have creeped into the party mechanism.
There were also allegations about party leaders and cadre deviating from ideology and getting involved in realty business.
The proposed "rectification document" is likely to come out with steps to stem the organisational rot while dealing with issues ranging from factionalism and ideological deviation to corruption and even "sabotage" of candidates.
"The aim of bringing out the document is to pin-point the organisational weaknesses. We will have to discuss and assess the causes threadbare so that a concrete document is prepared for action," a senior party leader said.
It is understood to have identified neglect of work among rural poor, more dependence on the government administration rather than mass mobilisation in Left-ruled states, arrogance and bureaucratic attitude among its leaders and cadres as some reasons for the party's drubbing in the recent elections.
Corruption, nepotism, the influence of money and caste and even "sabotage of candidates" have also been identified as reasons for the electoral debacle, the sources said.
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