New Delhi: CPI-M will ask its cadre and leaders not to fall for neo-liberal lifestyle and adopt austerity measures even as it criticised the Congress' similar drive.
The party says the austerity drive was to make its ministers more accountable.
The CPI-M Politburo, which is discussing a document for rectifying the "wrong trends" in the party, is understood to have given shape to its drive which will ask its cadre and leaders to lead a simple life and not fall for neo-liberal lifestyle.
"We have seen the austerity of Congress style. The style in which an MP buys an economy class, sits in an economy class till the flight takes off and then move to business class,” CPI-M Politburo member Sitaram Yechury said.
"This is not the style of austerity which we are talking about," Yechury added.
The 'rectification' document was given finishing touches at the one-day meeting of the CPI-M Politburo which was attended by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.
The document will be forwarded to Central Committee for ratification. The Committee will meet later this month to finalise it.
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