Friday, February 15, 2002
Kannur: The seventeenth state conference of Communist Party of India Marxist would start here today. Kannur is fully filled with cut outs, posters, and welcome banners and is fully immersed in the spirit of party conference. Politburo members V S Achuthanandan, S Ramachandran Pillai, E Balanandan, Pinarayi Vijayan and E K Nayanar are camping Kannur and assessing the arrangements made for the conference.
Party secretary Harkishen Singh Surjeet, Politburo members Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechuri, P Ramachandran and Bengal chief minister Budhadev Bhattacharya would reach here today.
Total 562 delegates including 474 delegates elected from district conferences, 76 state committee members and 8 observers would attend the state conference. Senior party leaders KPR Rayarappan, M P Narayanan Nambiar, Berlin Kunjananthan nair, and Subrahmanya Shenoyi would also attend the conference.
