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CPI(M) meet to focus on greater industrialisation

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KOLKATA: The drive towards greater industrialisation that is being undertaken by the State government will, among other policy matters, be put under the scanner in the course of the five-day 22nd State conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) that begins here on Sunday with an open session.

Also to be reviewed will be matters related to the functioning of the party organisation in the State over the past three years, its successes and weaknesses, and ways to strengthen it at different levels for taking forward its programmes, Secretary of the CPI(M)’s State Committee, Biman Bose, said here on Friday.

Certain aspects of the State’s industrial policies have come under flak from some constituents of the ruling Left Front in recent months and the parties in question have even shared their reservations at separately convened meetings.

“Everyone should see their faces in the mirror and check on what each has been up to,” Shyamal Chakravarty, member of the CPI (M) central committee said, referring to the meetings being held between leaders of some of the Left Front constituents.

Despite the differences, however, “there was none [no party] speaking about breaking up the Left Front. If one wants to do so it would be doing so at the risk of being isolated,” Mr. Chakravarty who is also president of the State unit of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, said.

Referring to the coming State conference, Mr. Bose said that in all 24 proposals would be placed before the participants. Besides the party’s general secretary, Prakash Karat, invitees to the conference would include S.R. Pillai, Sitaram Yechury, Brinda Karat [ all Polit Bureau members] and the party’s State Secretaries in Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, Assam and Tripura.

The functioning of the State municipalities and panchayats would also figure in the discussions at the conference. What will be borne in mind is the fact that the rural polls in the State are scheduled for mid-this year.

The CPI (M) leadership is expecting a mammoth turn-out at the open session of the State conference on Sunday that is to be addressed by veteran Marxist leader, Jyoti Basu, Mr. Karat, Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Mr. Bose.

The rally will highlight the needs to protect democracy and maintain law and order in West Bengal.

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