Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member Md Salim was on Thursday appointed as the West Bengal State Secretary of the party. Mr. Salim will replace veteran CPI(M) leader Surjya Kanta Mishra.
Mr. Salim, who was had represented the party in both houses of Parliament and was a Minister in the Left Front government, was unanimously chosen for the post at the State Committee meeting. With the party focusing on bringing in more young people and giving representation to all kinds of linguistic and regional minorities the elevation of the Md Salim is crucial.
“The State committee has 80 members keeping one slot vacant we have elected 79 members. A large section of State committee members have retired and new members have been elected,” Mr. Salim said. The CPI(M) leader said that crucial issues like age, and representations based on gender and different ethnic and regional groups have been considered in the new committee. According to sources in the party, the CPI(M) State Committee had 24 new names which is nearly 30% of the entire committee. DYFI State secretary Meenakshi Mukherjee and SFI State secretary Srijan Bhattacharya had been included in the State Committee of the party.
