President's Address

Ritabrata Banerjee’s Amendments to President's Address

1. That at the end of the Motion, the following be added namely : “but regret that there is no mention in the Address about the serious situation arising in the Central Institutions of Higher education with specific reference to JNU, Hyderabad Central University and IIT Chennai."

2. That at the end of the Motion, the following be added namely: “but regret that there is no mention in the Address about the growing intolerance manifesting the violence and spread of communal polarization in the country."

President's Address: S R Pillai

Speech of S. Ramachandran Pillai, President of the Inaugural Session of the 20th Congress of the CPI(M)
 
Comrades,
 
I am very happy to greet you all on the occasion of the 20th Congress of Communist Party of India (Marxist).  Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Party has explained the major tasks before the 20th Congress.  The Party Congress is an important event for the Party.  The Party Congress is the supreme organ of the Party which decides all political and organisational issues before the Party.
 
We are holding the 20th  Congress in Kerala, one of the  strongest units of the Party which has great revolutionary traditions and has produced many great working class leaders like P. Krishna Pillai, EMS Namboodiripad, A. K.