CPM places Bijan at secretary post

13 new faces in 83-member state committee

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Agartala, Aug 06 :  The 19th CPI (M) state conference set Mr.Bijan Dhar at the post of the state secretary and Mr.Chitta Chanda as Chairman of the party's state control commission today. 

The state committee was constituted with 83 members while 13 members among them were new faces and three remained as invited members. The 14-member state secretariat panel was the same as earlier. They were Mr. Baidyanath Majumdar,Mr. Manik Sarkar,  Mr.Goutam Das, Mr.Bijan Dhar, Mr. Khagen Das, Mr.Badal Chowdhury, Mr.Manik Dey, Mr.Aghore Deb Barma, Mr. Bajuban Reang, Mr.Niranjan Deb Barma, Mr.Anil Sarkar, Mr.Narayan Rupini, Mr.Narayan Kar.

'Third Front to set secular government'

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Agartala, Aug 06 : Before CPI (M) general secretary, Prakash Karat left the city this evening did stick the electioneering drum for the next parliamentary election for the party cadres and virtually asked them to be in field immediately with new political equation after left parties withdrew support from Congress led UPA government and came back to the old stand of maintaining equal distance from Congress and BJP.  He said in the last day of 19th CPI (M) state committee conference, " to defeat communal BJP and capitalist America's ally Congress, CPI (M) is fighting to set a secular third front government at the center" adding that BJP should not be given the space, what was going out from the Congress for their anti-public policies. 

Kidnapped youth rescued, 3 held

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Agartala, Aug 06 : Police arrested three persons for kidnapping one youth from a fast food outlet at Ker Chowmuhani today. The arrested persons were identified as Laxman Malakar, Sankar Debbarma and Biswajit Lali- all of them are resident of Hapania.

According to police, Laxman got married Pampi Malakar of Hapania few months ago. In the wake torture, Pampi had to elope with Gautam Saha of same village recently. In order to teach a lesson to both Pampi and Gautam, Laxman along with two others today kidnapped Gautam when he was waiting in front of a fast food centre.