CPI central executive to meet in Chennai

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, DEC. 7. The CPI is holding its central executive in Chennai in early January 2001 to discuss among other things the coming elections to five State Assemblies, indicating the importance the party attaches to the hustings from Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.

While Assembly elections are due around April next year in three other States - Kerala, West Bengal and Assam - the CPI's meeting in Chennai assumes added significance, as it is here that the Left parties will be taking on the BJP and its allies more intensely.

The CPI's State secretary, Mr. R. Nallakannu, back from the recently held party plenum in New Delhi, today said top leaders of the party including its general secretary, Mr. A.B. Bardhan, will be participating in the central executive meeting scheduled here for two days from January 3.

Even as the CPI will carry forward the ``implementation of its plenum decisions,'' a key aspect of which is updating the party programme, Mr. Nallakannu said that within their broad strategy to oppose the BJP, the executive would discuss the specific guidelines for the coming Assembly polls.

Stating that organisational issues and campaigns to oppose the globalisation policies took a major chunk of the plenum's time, Mr. Nallakannu said the party's top-level body had endorsed and welcomed the merger of the UCPI led by Mr. D. Pandian with the CPI unit in Tamil Nadu.

Denying there was any controversy over the CPI outfit, Tribes People Association, organising some meetings in the Sathyamangalam area recently, Mr. Nallakannu said his party's stand had been that the STF operations to nab the forest brigand, Veerappan, should not ``terrorise'' the tribal population there. The valedictory of the CPI's platinum jubilee year celebrations would be celebrated throughout Tamil Nadu on December 26, he added.

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