A serious rift within the party surfaced in 1962. One reason was the Sino-Indian War, where a faction of the Indian communists backed the position of the Indian government, while other sections of the party claimed that it was a conflict between a socialist and a capitalist state, and thus took a pro-Chinese position. There were three factions in the party - internationalists, centrists, and nationalists. Internationalists supported the Chinese stand where as the Nationalists backed India. Centrists took a neutral view. Prominent leaders including S.A. Danke, A. K. Gopalan, and E. M. S. Namboodiripad were in the nationalist faction. B. T. Ranadive, Sundarayya, P. C. Joshi, Basavapunniah, Jyoti Basu, and Harkishan Singh Surjeet are among those supported China. Ajoy Ghosh was the prominent person in the centrist faction. In general, most of Bangal communist leaders supported China and most others supported India [1]. Hundreds of CPI leaders, accused of being pro-Chinese were imprisoned. Some of the nationalists were also imprisoned, as they used to express their opinion only in party forums, and CPI's official stand was pro-China.
HK Surjeet influenced by Russia to setup an underground organization CPI did proceed to recruit a secret organization within the Indian Army. China Russia insisted that the CPI must develop a standby apparatus capable of armed resistance, while intensifying penetration of Indian Military forces.
RE:The truth about Indian communists
by Patriotic Indian on Jul 08, 2008 02:41 PM Permalink
Okay....why have you stopped your fantasy. go on , continue.
Give your dreams a bit more imagination. So Indian military is now communist, is it???
Good heavens, you should be awarded some chakra for your imagination.
RE:The truth about Indian communists
by Natesh on Jul 08, 2008 02:49 PM Permalink
patriotic Indian, the communists supported China during the Indo-Sino war... go talk to your old comrades and they will still support China. They take money from their chinese mastes for elections and stalling this deal to please them
