INDIA: Expulsion of Comrade Balraj (Baccha Prasad Singh) from CPI (Maoist)

 COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) 

Central Committee 

Press Release 

17 November, 2023 

Expulsion of Comrade Balraj (Baccha Prasad Singh) from CPI (Maoist) 

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) expels Comrade Balraj (Baccha Prasad Singh) from all responsibilities and dissolves his primary Party membership, for his group, disruptive activities with right opportunist politics and running a parallel centre causing severe harm to the party. 

Comrade Balraj became a member of the Central Committee of Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI) formed with the merger of the erstwhile Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Second CC) and erstwhile Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) in 2003. He continued to be a member of the CC in the CPI (Maoist) formed in 2004 with the merger of erstwhile CPI (ML) (People’s War) and MCCI and was elected to the Polit Bureau in the CC meeting held after the successful Congress of the CPI (Maoist) in 2007. As a CCM and PBM Comrade Balraj was a member of the North Regional Bureau (NRB) and also held its responsibility for a while. He was arrested in 2009 mainly since he did not follow secret method of functioning formulated by the CC even in intense repressive conditions and continued open relations with his family. 

Comrade Balraj did not demonstrate the least revolutionary determination when arrested. He was very weak and disclosed several of the party secrets to the enemy. He continued to be so in prison. When released in 2016, he did not make a deep self-criticism on his behavior in prison and did not go underground as per the decision of the CC. He was again and again arrested due to these weaknesses and did not even inform the CC of the details. 

Comrade Balraj did not implement the party resolution and had been grossly violating the Party Constitution, method of work, rules formulated by the Unity Congress-Ninth Congress and the decisions of the CC. Moreover, he indulged in group and disruptive activities against the political, military, organisational path and was not even ready to meet the in-charge of ERB. On one hand he took up ill propaganda against the ERB and the in-charge of ERB against the protracted plan and tactics formulated by the Unity Congress-Ninth Congress and the Central Committee. On the other, he went to the extent of forming a ‘parallel centre’ against the party with a few comrades of North Bihar, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana and held meetings in the name of ‘meeting of Party leadership comrades’ working in several areas of North Region. 

Comrade Balraj is making ill propaganda making serious false allegations on the party leadership joining hands with the enemy. Apart from the above mentioned states, he is following divisive methods and making vain attempts to divert the party ranks of West Bengal and Bihar, to harm the revolutionary movement and People’s War and to split the party. He stepped aside from the fundamental path and the path of Protracted People’s War of our party. 

Although comrade Balraj indulged in anti-party activities and demoralized actions mentioned above to harm the party and the movement in the North Region, especially 2-U and Punjab, except for a few, the entire party cadres are committed to the party leadership and the fundamental line of the party. 

The Central Committee made the necessary resolutions in its 5th, 6th and 7th meetings to rectify the right opportunist understanding of Comrade Balraj. In view of his anti-party disruptive activities, the General Secretary of the Party issued a show-cause notice to him as per the resolution made in the CC meeting in 2021. The notice stated to immediately stop running a parallel centre and anti-party activities and to first implement the CC resolution failing which the CC would be taking disciplinary action. He did not reply to the show-cause notice. On the contrary, his antiparty, disruptive, opportunist methods rose further. Then the GS issued a letter as per the CC resolution detailing his practice. 

In fact, the practice of Comrade Balraj since his release from prison shows that he stepped aside of the fundamental line of the party theoretically and politically in a planned manner so as to live a normal life. In the name of giving utmost importance to have a CC to work openly and to establish people’s movements and Mass 2 Organisations, he denied the central task formulated, in the direction of armed revolutionary movement and formation of liberated areas approved by the Unity Congress-Ninth Congress of the party. He indulged in group, disruptive activities. He tried to harm the internal unity of the party since 2016. The CC gave him ample opportunities to rectify. He did not try to utilise. He lacked the least self-critical understanding. The 8 th meeting of the CC reviewed his entire practice and resolved to boycott him. 

The CC expels Comrade Balraj from the party and calls upon the ranks of the party, PLGA, sympathizers, supporters and revolutionary people to not continue any kind of relations in any level with him and to boycott him. Our party is tempered in class struggle and People’s War upholding the great sacrifices and heredity of the martyrs. It shall throw opportunists, disruptors, conspirators, degenerated elements and traitors as waste material and shall advance. 

Abhay Spokesperson 

Central Committee