People's Democracy

(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)


Vol. XXVIII

No. 47

November 21, 2004

Reception Committee Formed For 18th Party Congress

 

A hundred member reception committee for the 18th Party Congress of the CPI(M), to be held for the first time in New Delhi from April 6 to 11, 2005, was constituted at a meeting at the Constitution Club, New Delhi, on November 17. The meeting was chaired by CPI(M) central committee member, Joginder Sharma.

 

The chairman of the reception committee will be Joginder Sharma and secretary will be Delhi CPI(M) state secretary, Pushpendra Grewal. Brinda Karat is the vice chairperson and Mahinder Singh is the treasurer.

 

Apart from Delhi state committee members and leaders of mass organisations, the committee comprises a wide spectrum of personalities – artists, writers, student leaders, doctors, media persons, teachers, lawyers and scientists. Prominent among them are: veteran journalist Prabash Joshi, Geeta Hariharan, Asghar Wajahat, Vivan Sundaram, Dr. M M A Faridi, Manmohan  Singh Baba, Ashok Chakradhar, Subha Mudgal, Zubair Razvi, Veena Majumdar and Bawa Shiv Charan Singh  to name a few.

 

Gracing the occasion were CPI(M) general secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Polit Bureau members Prakash Karat and S Ramachandran Pillai. (INN)