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Report of the Central Control Commission
(Presented to and approved by the 6th Congress of CPI(ML))

The present Central Control Commission (CCC) was elected from the 5th All-India Party Congress in December 1992 in Calcutta and now we report to the 6th All-India Party Congress. The institution of a 3-member CCC was set up in our Party from the 4th Party Congress in January 1988 when the Party was in the underground, conducting armed resistance struggles of the broad peasantry in the main, while adopting other forms of struggles at the same time. By the 5th Party Congress in 1992, in consonance with the prevailing objective situation and in response to the urgent requirements of a more direct and independent assertion on behalf of the Party, our Party came into the open for combining more widely and systematically all forms of struggles under the banner of one single party. Thus the present CCC came into being truly at a historic juncture and functioned during a period of transition from underground and illegal practice to a practice of combining parliamentary with extra-parliamentary etc. And it was due to the Party’s farsightedness and unfailing commitment to democratic norms and disciplined functioning that we set up the institution of CCC as early as in January 1988 from the forum of our 4th Party Congress. It is an eloquent testimony to the Party Central Committees’ conviction that Party discipline must be upheld and enforced in all conditions — whether the Party is in the underground or in the open, whether it is conducting armed or illegal activities, or peaceful parliamentary activities, etc.

However, the activities of the current CCC were highly limited. In accordance with the provision of the constitution, as amended in the 5th Party Congress in December 1992, our activities were confined to individual cases only as they arise and as they are referred to us by the Party Central Committee. Without having any further constitutional guideline or orientation, the current CCC was not in a position to play its due role in the life and functioning of the Party. Bereft of any such general orientation and tasks, the present CCC remained strictly confined to dealing with individual cases of indiscipline as they arise. To be precise and concrete, during the last term of five years, we dealt with only one single case of individual appeal against expulsion by the district committee and approved by the concerned State committee.

Report: It was the appeal made by Rafat Hussain of Hazaribagh district of Bihar, who was expelled by the Hazaribagh District Committee on the grounds of indiscipline and of carrying on anti-party propaganda, precisely, calumnious campaign within and outside the Party against the Party and its leadership in connection with the unfortunate death of a leading comrade of the district. Inspite of repeated warnings from the District Party Committee for refraining him from such anti-Party campaigns outside the Party and for settling his question around the incident within the parameters of the Party norms, the appellant Rafat Hussain continued his calumnious propaganda against the Party and its leadership and finally invited the expulsion by the District Party Committee and also subsequent approval by the State Committee. Then Rafat Hussain knocked at the doors of the CCC with his appeal against expulsion from the Party.

After receiving the appeal through the Party Central Committee, the Central Control Commission immediately got down to action and acknowledged the receipt of the appeal to the appellant and assured him of prompt action at our end and the matter was further taken up with the Hazaribagh District Committee and the Bihar State Committee simultaneously.

However, when the matter was still under active consideration of the CCC, reports were pouring in to us about appellant’s active participation in the electioneering in favour of a bourgeois opponent party in Bihar, concretely in favour of J.M.M. (Mardi faction). After repeated confirmed reports about appellants’ open activities in favour of an alien political party, the CCC considered it meaningless to continue the perusal of the appeal and dismissed the case summarily under intimation to the appellant and all concerned.

Apart from this single case of appeal, the CCC received one or two letters from individual comrades containing personal grievances. The CCC forwarded those letters to the concerned regional committees under advice to the concerned State Committee.

Experience of the last five years of the transitional phase, when different forms of struggles and organisations were being combined and particularly, when legal, open and parliamentary struggle were in the forefront, clearly exhibited some deviations in the ideological perspective, which also indicates a definite erosion in the Party spirit in the large section of the Party ranks. The situation after the 5th Party Congress and the problems thereof, were, to a great extent, dealt with and summed up in the All-India Organisational Conference in July 1995 at Diphu, Karbi Anglong, Assam. The organisational conference correctly pointed out the task of changing the ideological style of the Party members and Party cadres for orientating them to the task of Party building among the broad masses through waging struggle against their bourgeois ideology and individualism. The task is wholly valid upto this day and should be held high further.

With the broadening of the Party practice into various forms and various fronts leading to interaction with the forces of social democracy and liberal democracy, the Party’s political line, at times, suffered dilution at the hands of the Party members influenced by those forces. Party’s political discipline is to be maintained first for maintaining strict discipline in the Party. To dislodge the social democrats from the dominance in the Indian Left movement and to establish the preeminence of the revolutionary left in the Indian Left and communist movement, while striving for a left and democratic confederation is our basic political line. All Party members’ speeches, statements and actions should corroborate and serve this line and should never run counter to it. Experience of the last term showed that the CCC has a big role to play in this connection.

As for the suggestion of the current CCC for improving the role and functions of this institution in the days ahead, we like to state that the size of the CCC should be enlarged, i.e., it should be composed of at least 5 members instead of three as at present.

We hope that the role and functions of the CCC would develop commensurately with the developing needs of an ever-growing party.

We fervently hope that the next CCC in the days ahead would prove itself to be more competent and would be more effective in implementing the Party line and policies and in wiping out indiscipline and unhealthy tendencies from our Party life completely.

Sankar Mitra
Chairman
For and on behalf of the
Central Control Commission
CPI(ML)

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