Comrade President,
Comrade Sudhakar Reddy, General Secretary of CPI,
Comrade Debabrata Biswas, General Secretary of AIFB,
Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary of SUCI (C),
Comrade Abani Roy, leader of the RSP,
Comrade Kavitha Krishnan, Member of the Polit Bureau of the CPI(ML) (Liberation),
Comrade delegates, observers, guests and friends,

I thank you all for being present here at Visakhapatnam for the inaugural session of the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).