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The CPM will set up a Programme Commission to update the 33-year-old party's
programme. The earlier commission had failed to update the strategy before its
term lapsed, sources in the Politburo today.
The six-member commission was set up during the 14th party congress at Chennai.
The party general secretary, Mr Harkishen Singh Surjeet, was convener of the
earlier commission.
The party today also reiterated it would not join the United Front (UF) coalition
at the Centre till the completion of its 16th party congress scheduled for
February 1998 here. It will pull out support from the UF if the Congress joins it
within this period.
Sources said the new commission may induct new faces. There may also be some
additions from the Politburo. Discussions on setting up the new commission may be
taken up at the CPM's Central Committee meeting from May 12 to May 14. The
Politburo will meet on May 11 to suggest the need for updating the party
programme.
In Delhi, Mr Surjeet said: "Considerations on the programme commission and
updating the party programme will be taken up by the Central Committee. Just wait
and you will come to know."
About the possibility of the CPM calling a plenum for a radical update of its
programme, Mr Surjeet said: "Why should we call a plenum. The ensuing party
Congress is fully empowered to adopt the update." The CPM had convened its last
plenum at Salkia, West Bengal, in 1978.
Sources said the new commission will update the party programme without changing
the nine basic tenets spread in 120 articles in the 33-year old programme. It
will revalidate the resolutions already adopted during the 14th and 15th party
congresses at Chennai and Chandigarh.
A Politburo member said: "The party feels the class-character of the Indian state
has not undergone any radical change. There will also be no change in our views
of class alignment."
The strategy followed by the party at the moment was adopted at the all-Indian
conference of the undivided Communist Party in October 1951. The member said: "We
will continue to pursue the strategy followed by us for the past 40 years while
assessing as to who will form the government."
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