People’s Convention on “Save JNU, Save Democracy”
The open session of the 10th Patna district Conference of CPI(ML) was held in the form of a people’s convention at the public library maidan in Patna on “Save JNU, Save Democracy, Save the Country from Assaults by Sangh Parivar and Modi Government”. This was organized in memory of Narendra Dhabolkar, Govind Pansare, Prof. Kalburgi and Rohith Vemula. CPI(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, Politburo member Ramji Rai, Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Mahasabha General Secretary Rajaram Singh, CPI(ML) legislative group leader in the Bihar Assembly Mahboob Alam, Tarari MLA Sudama Prasad, former Professor of Patna College Nawal Kishore Choudhury, Dr. PNP Pal, former JNU student Prof. Abhay Kumar, Advocate Javed Ahmed and several others participatedin the convention.
After the people’s convention, the delegates’ session started at 6 PM and was conducted by a committee comprising of comrades Rambali Prasad, Anita Sinha, Satyanarayan Prasad, Mohan and Anwar Hussain. The session was inaugurated by Politburo member Comrade Swadesh Bhattacharya. Outgoing District Secretary Comrade Amar presented the written working report, and reviewed the struggles and movements which had been undertaken. He highlighted the Party’s experiences during this period as well as the future responsibilities facing the Party. This was followed by a discussion on the report. The delegates gave concrete suggestions on several issues, including the Party’s role in panchayats, developing a concrete working system for educating and training new members, strengthening Party branches and other lower structures, maintainingthe Party’s control over use of economic resources, ensuring adequate guidance from the Party organization to people’s organizations and other issues. Comrade Amar welcomed the delegates’ suggestions and said that they would be incorporated in the report as required, after which the report was unanimously passed.
Addressing the delegates’ session, Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya highlighted the need to develop a system for strengthening branches and local structures to make them active and able to shoulder new responsibilities and achieve new targets. He also stressed on the need to strengthen the role of people’s mass organizations. In the final session, the rural and urban sectors of Patna district were integrated and a 53 member Patna district committee was elected under the watch of observer Comrade RN Thakur. The Conference concluded with the district committee members electing Comrade Amar as Secretary.A total of 221 delegates attended the Conference.
