Ahead of the 20th party congress of the CPI-M to be held in Kozhikode in April 2012, the district conferences of the party in Kerala got underway with the delegates meeting in Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode districts on Thursday. Both the conferences are just business conferences which would discuss organisational issues, take stock of the international, national and state-level political and economic issues. No mass rally and other activities are arranged as part of the conferences since Kozhikode is the venue for Party Congress and Thiruvananthapuram is the venue for State conference to be held in February 2012.
Com. V S Achuthanandan inaugurated the Thiruvananthapuram district conference held at AKG Hall in the city. 415 delegates representing 26,929 members in Thiruvananthapuram District are participating in the conference. 2040 Branch conferences 156 Local conferences and 18 Area conferences were conducted before the district conference in the state capital. Party State committee member Anavur Nagappan chaired the inaugural session. The inaugural session was also addressed by CPI(M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, Central committee members M.A. Baby, E.P. Jayarajan, and A. Vijayaraghavan. Party District Secretary Com. Kadakampally Surendran placed the organisational report.
Com. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan inaugurated the Kozhikode conference being held at Mukkam. Senior CPI (M) leader M. Kelappan hoisted the flag at the West Mambetta Kartika Kalyana Mandapam signalling the commencement of the three-day Kozhikode District conference. As many as 303 delegates from 15 areas committees in the district are participating in the conference. This apart, 36 district committees are also taking part. CPI (M) central committee members P.K. Gurudasan, Vaikkom Viswom, P K Sreemathi, T M Thomas Issac and state leaders Elamaram Karim, A.K. Balan are participating in the meet. Party district secretary T.P. Ramakrishnan presented the organisational report.
V S Achuthanandan said economic and political situations all over the world reflect the continued relevance of socialism. He said the developments in Europe and the United States have exposed the deep crisis faced by the capitalist economies. "In America, people are hitting the street as the crisis gripping its economy is graver than the great depression of 1930s," he said. Instead of learning lessons from the crisis in the Western World, the UPA Government had been aggressively pushing policies of globalisation and privatisation without bothering their severe consequences to the common mass, he alleged.
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