"We have failed to give proper reply to the opposition's false propaganda. The opposition also succeeded in creating confusion on the question of land acquisition," CPI-M state secretary Biman Bose told reporters after the two-day state committee meeting of the party which made a preliminary review of the outcome of the panchayat poll.
CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat and Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee who were present in the meeting, also gave their views.
RSP, a key LF partner, had yesterday held the CPI-M responsible for the Front's poll debacle and demanded that the industrial policy be reconsidered and land acquisition be made more transparent.
Stating that poor showing in some areas was not a permanent political feature, Bose asserted that the industrialisation drive of the Front government would continue.
"In the case of land acquisition for industry, we have to take the people into confidence and move forward."
Asked whether that meant slowing down the industrialisation process, he said it was not the question of slowing down, but "we have to take the people into confidence.
Asked whether the people were not taken into confidence in the case of land acquisition for Tata project in Singur, Bose said, "I am not here to do postmortem on Singur."