CPI(M) prepares for Jyoti Basu birth centenary celebrations

The CPI(M) would start preparations for celebrating the birth centenary of late chief minister and party leader Jyoti Basu from July 8.

"From that day, the party will prepare for a year-long birth centenary celebration of Jyoti Basu with due honour," the CPI(M) state committee said after a meeting here today.

The state committee said the celebrations would include spread of Marxist ideology and for extending mass organisations.

The party has already decided to set up a Jyoti Basu centre for social studies and research at Rajarhat in memory of the Marxist leder who died on January 17, 2010.