The district conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) got under way here on Thursday with party State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurating the delegates’ session.
The party flag at the conference venue was hoisted by veteran party leader P.V. Krishnan. Party leaders paid floral tributes at the martyrs’ column in the morning. The entire town was decorated with red festoons and party flags.
The conference will conclude on January 31 with a rally. Leader of the Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan will address the rally.
In his inaugural address at the delegates’ session of the conference here on Thursday, Mr. Vijayan called on party cadres to work for expanding the mass base of the party. Those who were not active in the party’s political activities would not have a place in the organisation, he told the workers.
He also said that the CPI(M) would go ahead with its secular politics by mobilising people against both majority and minority communal extremism .
Polit Bureau members Kodiyeri Balakrishnan and M.A. Baby, party leaders E.P. Jayarajan, P.K. Sreemathi, party district secretary P. Jayarajan, MLAs T.V. Rajesh and James Mathew and P.K. Biju, MP, were present.
