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West Bengal CPI (M) meet to review policy matters

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In all, 24 proposals will be placed before the participants
It will also discuss the functioning of the local bodies

KOLKATA: The industrialisation drive being undertaken by the West Bengal government will, among other policy matters, come under the scanner during 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 would be matters related to the functioning of the party organisation in the State in 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. “Everyone should see their faces in the mirror and check 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 at the risk of them being isolated,” Mr. Chakravarty who is also president of the State unit of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, said.

Mr. Bose said that in all 24 proposals would be placed at the conference. Besides party general secretary Prakash Karat, invitees 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 party leadership is expecting a mammoth turn-out at the open session on Sunday. It will be addressed by veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu, Mr. Karat, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Mr. Bose.

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