"At the plenum organised last year in December, it was decided that the decisions taken in the Kolkata plenum will be implemented by the state committees. So the plenum of the state committee is now being organised today and tomorrow.
"The objective is to streamline and strengthen the party through the organisation plenum and overcome the challenges in Bengal," a senior CPI(M) Politburo member told PTI.
CPI(M) state Secretary Surya Kanta Mishra today said countering the politics of terror and intimidation unleashed by the TMC is one of the biggest challenges the state is presently facing.
"The politics of terror and intimidation unleashed by the TMC, tacitly supported by the BJP, continues in West Bengal against the CPI(M) and the Left Front," Mishra said.
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"Along with terror and intimidation they are using methods of coercion and appeasement through money power to wrest control of various local bodies that the Left Front had won prior to the Assembly elections. Ruling TMC has publicly declared that it shall 'capture' all local bodies by weeding out the opposition by the end of the year. The plenum will look into ways to counter it," Misha said.
"To counter such an unprecedented situation, we need to bring in more young blood in the party. More youths need to be brought into the party's organisational structure. Inactive members crippled due to age-old problems and those who do not have a good image among the masses should step aside and make way for new and fresh ones," Mishra added.