The Front has also decided to propose the constitution of a core committee to monitor the work of ministers. The committee had been set up in 1977 but had since fallen dormant during the mid -80s.

Mr Bhattacharya, who is to be the Left Front government's first deputy chief minister, was born on March 1, 1944 in Calcutta. His father was Nepal Chandra Bhattacharya , brother of famous poet Sukanta Bhattacharya.

Bhattacharya took to politics while studying at the Presidency College from where he graduated in Bengali Honours in 1964. Her was associated with every major students' movement on the Calcutta University campus and came in touch with the CPI(M) in 1966. He was jailed for his politics in the three years of 1966,1967 and 1972 but continued to work for the movement even with arrest warrants against him. He became the first national general secretary of the Democratic Youth Federation of India in 1968. He is now a central committee as well as state secretariat member of the CPI(M).