NEW COMMITTEE ELECTED

The state conference elected an 85-strong state committee.  In its first meeting, the state committee unanimously elected Anil Biswas as the state secretary, and Nirupam Sen as the treasurer.  Five elderly leaders of the CPI(M), Samar Mukherjee, Subodh Roy, Kanak Mukherjee, Ananda Pathak, and Haridas Malakar were made honorary members of the state committee.  The state secretariat would be set up later and till such time the present secretariat would continue to function.  A five-member state control commission was set up headed by Ramnarayan Goswami.  The other members are: Kanika Ganguly, Mustafa Bin Kasem, Shayamapada Pal, and Samir Dasgupta.

During the state conference, many seminars and symposia were held at locations conveniently near to the conference venue on various topics having current relevance, and these were addressed by the central and state leadership of the CPI(M).