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PALAKKAD, FEB. 15. The Communist Party of India (CPI) wants reunification of Communist groups to regain the lost glory of the Communist movement in the country, the party's State secretary, Veliyam Bhargavan, has said. Addressing a press conference here today, Mr. Bhargavan said the CPI had called for the merger of the two major Communist groups in the country — the CPI and the CPI(M) as a prelude to the unification of splinter groups. The differences between the CPI and the CPI(M) had narrowed down and the two were working together now, he said. Mr. Bhargavan said after the split in the Communist Party in 1964, there had been many more splits that led to the formation of a number of splinter groups. This had weakened the Communist movement. Communists, who were a major force in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh, had lost their influence because of this. In the coming party congress, the CPI would try to chalk out programmes to regain the party's lost influence in these States. Unless these States were regained, Communists would not be able to make an impact on the Indian political scene, he said. Wherever Communists got weakened, the space was taken by communal and caste-based parties like the BJP, as in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, he said. To fight communal and caste forces, the Communists should get strengthened through its reunification. Reunification of Communist groups was the need of the hour. The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) in the State had become the party of a bunch of corrupt leaders who had forgotten the stand its founders had taken on the protection of minorities and secular politics.
Law and order
The CPI leader said that the law and order situation has broken down in the State and that mafia gangs were challenging the law. The `sandal mafia' had openly challenged the authority of the Government. But the Government was not taking steps to curb their activities because the United Democratic Front (UDF) had no political will to put an end to the activities of the `sandal mafia'. Replying to a question, the CPI leader said that his party or the Left Democratic Front (LDF) would not have any truck with any of the dissident groups in the UDF, whether it be Karunakaran supporters or any other disgruntled group. Nobody should bargain with the UDF thinking that they would be taken in the LDF. The LDF did not want such opportunists as it stood for a principled political fight against the UDF and their "anti-people" policies,. he said. Mr. Bhargavan later addressed a public meeting at Fort Maidan organised as part of the conclusion of the party's three-day district conference.
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