Ajanta Biswas, the daughter of former Left Front chairman Anil Biswas, is likely to be suspended from the CPM for penning an article for Trinamul Congress mouthpiece Jago Bangla, sources in the Left party said.

The CPM area committee, which oversees activities of the party unit to which Ajanta belongs, has recommended her suspension for three months and the final decision will be taken by the Calcutta district committee.

“The area committee has sent its recommendation to the district committee. When the district committee meets on Saturday, it will take a final call. However, traditionally, the recommendation of the area committee is never altered by the district committee,” a source in the party said.

The article authored by Ajanta, who is an associate professor of history at Rabindra Bharati University in Calcutta, was titled “Woman power in Bengal politics” and chronicled the contributions of the likes of Basanti Devi and Sarojini Naidu. However, in the last part of the series, Ajanta heaped praise on Mamata Banerjee, who came to power in 2011 ending the Left Front’s three-and-a-half decades’ rule.

The CPM had showcaused Ajanta and she replied that she had only tried to uphold the contributions made by women in politics without judging any political colour.

Clearly, her answer didn’t go down well with the area committee which has finally recommended her suspension to the district committee.

In the CPM’s course of things, a member can be suspended for a minimum of a month to a maximum of a year for antiparty activities. If the member continues with such activities even after suspension, those can lead to that person’s dismissal.

On Tuesday, calls from this newspaper to Ajanta went unanswered.