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He was committed to the cause of poor

Special Correspondent

Anil Biswas was a tireless political worker

Anil Biswas

KOLKATA: Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Anil Biswas, who passed away on Sunday evening, was engaged vigorously in the past months over the Assembly elections in West Bengal. One of the last public appeals to have been made by Mr. Biswas was at the launch of the ruling Left Front campaign for the elections at a rally on January 8 when he urged upon the congregation to work towards not just a record seventh successive victory for the Front but also to ensure that the Left parties polled more than 50 per cent of the votes in each of the State's constituencies.

"There is no room for complacency," Mr. Biswas, the disciplinarian, had said — a reflection of his own commitment to the cause of the economic backward and oppressed and towards a more equitable society.

Considered the tactical strategist of the CPI(M) in the State, Mr. Biswas was a tireless political worker, considered the helmsman of the party and was given the responsibility of becoming its State secretary in 1998.

Born on March 1, 1944 at Karimpur in Nadia district, Mr. Biswas became a member of the CPI (M) in 1965 and a full-time member four years later. He joined the CPI(M)'s mouthpiece Ganashakti as a reporter and even though he got increasingly occupied over the years with responsibilities he remained associated with the newspaper, contributed articles, and became its editor from 1983 to 1998.

Mr. Biswas was made a member of the CPI(M) State Committee in 1978, a year after the Left Front came to power in West Bengal. Four years later he was inducted into the party's State Secretariat and in 1995 was made member of the CPI(M) Central committee. He became member of the party's Polit Bureau in 1998 the same year he took over as the State Secretary in West Bengal.

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