People's Democracy

Party School Set Up In Kolkata

 THE Kolkata district unit of the CPI (M) has set up a Party school at 80 Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road.  State secretary of the CPI (M), Anil Biswas formally inaugurated the Party School on November 8.

 Speaking on the occasion- at the Promode Dasgupta Bhavan later in the evening, Polit Bureau member of the CPI (M), Jyoti Basu said that education and re-education formed an important aspect of the political development of the Party members and that in this task, the Party School had a crucial role to play.  Basu expressed his pleasure at the setting up of the Party school although he did point out that such an effort should have been put into motion years earlier.

 Anil Biswas said that Party education was never a sporadic, “seasonal” affair and that for reasons of continuity a permanent Party school was very necessary.  Biswas hoped that by the time the next state conference of the CPI (M) would be held, at least half of the district units of the CPI (M) would be equipped with such permanent Party Schools.  Biswas noted that a basic syllabus that was framed some years back under the leadership of the late comrade P Sundarayya would be incorporated in the syllabi of the Kolkata Party School. 

 Anil Biswas said that a temporary Party school would be set up at the state level and classes would be held there between November 15 and 17.  The curricula would include the Party programme, and the working of the Left Front government. 

 State secretariat member and district secretary of the Kolkata unit of the CPI (M), Raghunath Kushari said that the initial lectures at the Party School would delivered on the theme of the functioning of the Branch Secretary of the Party.