Kolkata, Feb 18 (PTI) Former West Bengal minister Susanta Ghosh has been elected general secretary of CPI(M)'s Paschim Medinipur district committee, a party functionary said on Friday.

Ghosh will hold the post for a period of three years, he said.

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The former Left Front government minister had been arrested by police in connection with a murder case in 2011, after the Trinamool Congress came to power in the state, and spent more than five months behind bars before being granted bail by the Supreme Court.

A five-time MLA from the erstwhile Garbeta East Constituency (at present Garbeta) in the district, Ghosh was a minister in the Buddhadeb Bhattacharya cabinet and considered an influential leader.

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