CPI leader Pramod Gogoi dies

Veteran CPI leader, former Assam minister and President of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) Comrade Pramode Gogoi died at Guwahati on April 6th Morning. Comrade Gogoi, who was also Vice President of World Federation of Trade Union, played an active role in the refinery movement, the language movement and anti-dam movement in Assam.

Comrade Pramode Gogoi who joined politics at an early age during the freedom struggle was one of the tallest leader of the Left movement in the entire North Eastern region. He championed the cause of working people and played an important role in organizing the trade unions of different segments of workers including oil employees.

Comrade Gogoi was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly more than half a dozen time and was minister of the cabinet rank twice in the coalition government. Comrade Gogoi who attended the 21st Party Congress at Patna and was elected to the National Executive and had been Secretary of the National Council in the past returned to Assam capital day before. After some complain of shivering he was admitted to hospital where brain hammerage proved fatal.

The National Secretariat of the CPI sends heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family and leadership and rank and file of the Assam unit and dip the Red Flag in memory of the veteran dear leader Comrade Pramode Gogoi. Assam cut across party lines in paying glowing tributes to the veteran Leftist leader who passed away in Guwahati.

The state secretary of the CPI (M) Udhav Barman said that Gogoi was a very popular leader and this was evident from the fact that he was elected to the assembly five times. The Asom Gana Parishad, Bharatiya Janata Party and All India United Democratic Front also deeply mourned the death of Gogoi.

CPIM Party Congress souvenir released

Communist Party of India Marxist CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat released the souvenir of the CPI(M) 20th Party Congress during a function on Friday at the media centre in the conference nagar.

The souvenir, brought out in Malayalam and English, mainly comprises essays on the development of working class movements in different parts of the world by Karl Marx, Fredrick Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Georgi Dimitrov, P. Krishna Pillai, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, and A.K. Gopalan.

The souvenir also has analyses of the party congresses held till now; evaluations of the current political scenario; anecdotes from history; and rare photographs of leaders and events. It also contains the history of the Communist Party.

Photographs and other details of the extensive preparations with mass participation for the 20th Party Congress have also been included in the souvenir, which was released by Ms. Karat by handing over a copy to CPI(M) State Secretariat member V.V. Dakshinamurthy at the party congress media centre here. CPI(M) leader Elamaram Karim was also present.

Courtesy : The Hindu

Delebration on Draft Ideological resolution going on

The Draft resoultion on Some Ideological Issues moved by PB Member Com. Sitaram Yechury seeks to map an Indian road to Socialism even as it attempts to learn from the experience of all socialist struggles. The draft is bound by a commitment to creative application of Marxism Leninism to Indian conditions and the updated party programme of 2000. Setting aside suggestions that CPI(M) has rejected the Chinese model and embraced the Latin American path in its ideological positioning, party politburo member Sitaram Yechury today said the path of revolution and social transformation in the country would be based on "concrete Indian conditions."

"Not at all" was Yechury's answer when a question was put to him on the issue at the daily briefing at the venue of the 20th Congress of the CPI-M here.

"There is no question of taking a position that one path is right and the other is wrong. We have just analysed the experiences in China, Cuba, Latin America and South Africa to learn what is relevant so that we can develop our own movement," he said.

Yechury said China has become the second largest economy in the world.

"China is thriving. Living standards have improved there. But there are also deficiencies which a socialist country should not have. They are trying to resolve this," he said.

He said the main thrust of the ideological document, presented by him at the Congress, was on the challenges thrown by "imperialist globalisation" across the world in the last two decades and how to strengthen the political alternative in India to counter the challenges.

Yechury said the very birth of CPI(M) was based on its stand that the path of revolution or social transformation in the country would be based on the Indian path and not by imitating Russian or Chinese models.

"And that led to the three-way division of Communist parties in India," he said.

"Global capitalism was facing a crisis of the worst kind with increasing economic inequalities and jobless growth reported from many countries", he said adding "we are looking into issues to be resolved in Indian conditions for which the Left democratic alternative will be strengthened," he said.

Yechury said CPI(M) would strive for transition from capitalism to socialism "based on people's will and through peaceful means".

Asked whether "identity politics" based on caste and ethnicity had marginalised the Left in north Indian states, he said CPI(M) was for strengthening the positives of "identity politics" and combating the negatives.

As for ethnicity, there was a genuine sense of alienation and discontentment among some sections but the movement against oppression was being used for "disruptive" purposes, he said.

In caste-based formations also, there should be distinction between revolt against oppression and certain caste leaders are using the situation for political expediency.

The discussion on the ideological document is progressing at the Congress. A total of 27 delegates had taken part in the discussion so far, Yechury said. The resolution would be adopted after his reply tomorrow.

The draft ideological document, presented by Yechury, says "negative tendencies" like economic inequalities,unemployment, corruption and nepotism have surfaced in socialist countries, including China, which have embarked on a course of reforms to meet the challenges of present-day world realities.

CPIM Party Congress Adopted Political Resolution

The 20th party Congress of CPIM on Friday adopted the review report and political resolution presented by general secretary Prakash Karat, seeking to forge a Left democratic alternative against the 'neo-liberal' policies of Congress party and 'communal' agenda pursued by BJP.

Briefing reporters after the morning session of the ongoing Congress here, party politburo member Brinda Karat said there was 'near-unanimity on the political resolution. But two delegates from Andhra Pradesh voted against it.

She said the reasons for their opposition was not specified."Two comrades raised their hands in opposition when the resolution was put to vote. We do not know what prompted them to do that," she said, adding that the Andhra Pradesh delegation itself supported the resolution.

She said one of the delegates had placed an amendment to the review report which was also put to vote, but he could not get more than his one vote for the amendment.

Com. Brinda Karat said 343 amendments and 33 suggestions were taken up by the Congress during the two-day discussions on the resolution, of which some were accepted. She said the general trend was that the amendments discussed were aimed at strengthening the basic framework of the resolution.

The main thrust of the political resolution was based on the assessment of events since the last party Congress, current situation and future direction of the party,she said.

On the issue of withdrawal of support to the UPA government in 2008 over the nuclear deal, about which different views reportedly prevailed in the party, she said the party, at all levels, had endorsed the decision.

"The party Congress, which is the highest decision-making body of the party, has also now put to rest all speculations on the matter by adopting the political resolution," she said. 

Membership statement of Party and its mass -class organisations after 19th Party Congress

Name of State	Year
	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Andaman & Nicobar	235	244	243	228	205
Andhra Pradesh	68,405	80,372	82,735	79,468	82,388
Assam	13,072	14,267	14,847	14,514	14,359
Bihar	18,644	19,359	18,788	20,101	20,850
Chattisgarh	1,499	1,658	1,710	1,863	1,670
Delhi	1,843	1,952	1,974	1,835	1,885
Goa	61	60	54	54	54
Gujarat	3,526	3,528	3,534	3,556	3,575
Haryana	1,881	1,811	2,023	2,164	2,434
Himachal Pradesh	1,505	1,667	1,730	1,930	2,010
Jammu & Kashmir	1,980	2,068	1,803	1,654	1,694
Jharkhand	4,562	4,843	5,575	5,698	5,066
Karnataka	6,653	7,071	7,364	7,528	7,824
Kerala	3,36,644	3,40,534	3,65,848	3,62,597	3,70,833
Madhya Pradesh	3,001	3,156	2,759	2,724	3,027
Maharashtra	12,051	12,618	12,947	12,248	12,586
Manipur	400	618	596	542	557
Odisha	4,620	4,817	4,849	4,757	4,914
Punjab	10,140	10,325	8,975	8,830	9,044
Rajasthan	4,263	4,635	4,638	4,499	4,821
Sikkim	93	150	150	120	110
Tamilnadu	90,291	91,733	93,034	93,792	94,472
Tripura	67,764	69,600	75,426	76,374	78,738
Uttarakhand	1,050	1,100	1,075	1,110	1,110
Uttar Pradesh	6,175	6,113	6,134	6,180	6,056
West Bengal	3,21,682	3,14,233	3,32,962	3,19,435	3,14,438
CC staff	115	124	110	107	113
Total	9,82,155	9,98,656	10,42,287	10,33,908	10,44,833

Membership of Agricultural Workers Union Front

(After 19^th Congress)

Name of State	Year
	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
Andhra Pradesh	12,65,283	12,69,725	13,37,023	14,93,996	15,14,960
Bihar	1,36,610	92,280	68,970	1,07,898	90,280
Gujarat				800
Haryana	18,030	17,673	20,109	25,000	35,000
Karnataka	72,689	56,337	85,056	89,450	1,07,546
Kerala	18,23,482	18,75,207	19,61,988	20,50,282	21,34,639
Madhya Pradesh	1,500
Maharashtra	83,540	88,724	1,02,300	1,12,317	1,26,530
Odisha	20,510	21,208	11,000	24,032	25,640
Punjab	1,02,527	1,00,403	1,00,600	1,28,000	1,70,520
Rajasthan	22,000	24,350	22,500	19,600	23,500
Tamilnadu	4,35,748	4,18,842	3,97,704	4,90,639	5,09,546
Tripura	2,01,300	2,12,718	2,32,460	2,27,990	2,34,009
Uttar Pradesh	67,535	56,003	58,256	61,800	82,332
Total	42,50,754	42,33,470	43,97,966	48,31,804	50,54,502

Membership Of Kisan Front

(After 19^th Congress)

Name of State	Year
	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
Andaman & Nicobar	4,900	3,538	4,245	1,509	1,305
Andhra Pradesh	2,82,426	3,32,862	3,55,956	3,70,246	3,65,957
Assam	2,31,703	2,69,826	2,52,379	2,71545	1,95,398
Bihar	3,25,484	3,62,301	3,79,060	4,05,694	2,89,532
Chattisgarh	7,086	5,000	3,336	2,455	3,817
Gujarat	15,928	16,840	12,320	19,807	20,420
Haryana	37,101	61,094	73,526	94,884	1,10,063
Himachal Pradesh	38,339	30,000	37,800	43,229	52,000
Jammu & Kashmir	35,000	50,000	32,000	40,500	41,000
Jharkhand	70,299	84,628	96,054	96,400	76,200
Karnataka	1,32,634	1,45,736	2,02,543	2,34,542	2,57,692
Kerala	26,39,030	29,58,040	30,85,229	34,25,238	35,07,242
Madhya Pradesh	34,169	44,948	38,340	33,925	32,540
Maharashtra	1,90,197	2,03,231	2,46,455	1,65,593	2,35,234
Manipur	1,700	1,736	3,040	3,500	3,860
Odisha	77,170	1,22,000	1,24,027	1,09,800	1,13,920
Punjab	1,56,945	1,78,550	1,82,242	1,87,600	1,55,660
Rajasthan	2,41,576	2,95,810	2,39,540	1,51,133	2,54,216
Tamilnadu	5,09,181	5,46,906	5,81,451	6,35,045	6,33,570
Tripura (KS+GMP)	4,34,268	4,50,818	4,72,885	4,83,943	4,99,022
Uttarakhand	25,000	36,000	38,500	40,840	33,000
Uttar Pradesh	1,59,846	1,95,717	2,23,871	2,29,131	2,39,392
West Bengal	1,57,16,988	1,63,67,809	1,59,47,779	1,49,36,337	1,53,47,553
AIKS Centre	6	7	6	7	7
Total	2,13,66,976	2,27,63,397	2,26,32,584	2,19,82,903	2,24,68,600

Membership Of Student Front

(After 19^th Congress)

Name of State	Year
	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
Andhra Pradesh	6,77,659	8,79,140	9,68,011	11,32,122	9,42,461
Assam	27,118	24,729	24,077	26,127	19,899
Bihar	26,781	33,609	45,000	37,500	46,050
Chattisgarh	10,038	12,872	14,972	Nil	Nil
Delhi	4,529	5,108	5,000	5,000	4,294
Gujarat	4,230	7,743	Nil	Nil	Nil
Haryana	12,567	12,021	9,716	9,911	8,240
Himachal Pradesh	18,517	19,686	16,868	17,000	21,000
Jharkhand	10,176	7,455	9,551	10,026	9,136
Karnataka	90,709	1,12,074	96,256	94,654	83,949
Kerala	10,29,681	10,95,031	11,35,685	11,89,189	12,67,863
Madhya Pradesh	3,420	7,156	3,556	3,567	5,210
Maharashtra	23,398	31,215	30,948	24,371	35,335
Manipur	1,912	3,254	Nil	Nil	Nil
Odisha	5,176	8,944	9,053	7,057	8,412
Punjab	10,400	7,200	7,012	9,422	8,241
Rajasthan	44,630	49,088	49,182	52,242	51,060
Tamilnadu	1,58,981	1,70,724	1,63,655	1,56,917	1,81,240
Tripura	1,55,177	1,56,097	1,75,156	1,80.053	1,69,601
Uttarakhand	8,000	8,110	8,900	9,000	7,672
Uttar Pradesh	7,417	7,416	9,716	9,797	6,170
West Bengal	16,09,199	16,69,327	16,35,890	13,57,873	13,02,158
CEC	76
Centre				5	4
Total	39,39,791	43,27,999	44,18,204	43,31,833	41,77,995

Membership of TU Front

(After 19^th Congress)

Name of State	Year
	2005	2006	2007	2008
Andaman & Nicobar	2,727	3,078	2,692	2,992
Andhra Pradesh	3,07,615	4,70,866	3,42,402	4,44,163
Assam	59,651	52,022	55,020	71,991
Bihar	22,415	5,430	19,188	24,762
Chattisgarh	17,496	19,052	20,119	21,712
Delhi	29,511	30,810	31,296	36,795
Goa	551	618	788	677
Gujarat	12,588	13,135	13,129	14,849
Haryana	48,483	15,534	53,418	67,255
Himachal Pradesh	16,996	13,448	30,089	40,523
Jammu & Kashmir	6,376	276	5,589	4,372
Jharkhand	43,634	72,956	74,293	99,503
Karnataka	1,19,713	1,11,088	1,40,517	1,61,478
Kerala	10,69,798	10,89,448	11,50,443	12,69,523
Madhya Pradesh	24,005	24,297	30,677	31,516
Maharashtra	81,571	86,134	95,054	1,13,732
Mizoram				2,560
Odisha	82,885	88,553	84,253	1,08,780
Punjab	79,971	72,535	66,555	79,000
Rajasthan	31,228	31,016	33,735	40,423
Sikkim	370
Tamilnadu	3,30,856	3,56,780	4,57,825	5,17,846
Tripura	1,34,215	1,39,997	1,39,821	1,61,049
Uttarakhand	15,657	11,166	13,867	20,102
Uttar Pradesh	25,791	26,178	28,669	32,392
West Bengal	14,15,192	13,98,418	18,90,322	17,96,420
Total	39,79,295	41,32,835	47,79,761	51,64,415

Membership of Women’s Front

(After 19^th Congress)

Name of State	Year
	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Andaman & Nicobar	2,000	3,050
Andhra Pradesh	5,62,350	6,58,350	7,14,690	5,27,200	4,70,539
Assam	82,268	90,630	96,653	78,625	65,672
Bihar	54,157	55,328	58,190	56,154	60,105
Chattisgarh	2,330	3,265	3,240	2,050	2,150
Delhi	35,000	41,873	39,831	31,555	37,012
Goa		300	860	470	500
Gujarat	25,070	29,780	30,130	30,253	30,182
Haryana	34,600	40,534	43,000	45,110	41,038
Himachal Pradesh	10,625	11,458	14,487	14,725	15,780
Jharkhand	46,975	48,500	55,100	60,250	61,777
Karnataka	55,098	46,555	61,869	60,323	60,545
Kerala	30,79,360	34,73,900	37,38,103	39,26,620	42,43,132
Madhya Pradesh	15,358	16,253	14,341	20,734	22,767
Maharashtra	85,993	85,799	86,509	92,048	73,510
Manipur	2,600	2,100	1,016	3,000	3,600
Nagaland		7
Odisha	33,079	34,000	36,000	35,000	32,230
Punjab	22,100	21,470	30,400	32,500	32,500
Rajasthan	19,907	20,900	19,700	14,577	14,850
Tamilnadu	5,81,241	5,98,038	6,53,176	6,27,864	6,15,870
Tripura	4,67,525	5,01,000	5,27,666	5,49,235	5,76,800
Uttarakhand	9,110	8,910	9,120	7,252	8,060
Uttar Pradesh	60,671	70,000	68,363	56,862	57,112
West Bengal	58,18,701	60,45,296	57,08,779	58,44,815	41,76,079
Total	1,11,06,118	1,19,21,719	1,20,02,223	1,21,17,222	1,07,01,810

Membership of Youth Front

(After 19^th Congress)

Name of State	Year
	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Andaman & Nicobar	1,020
Andhra Pradesh	4,55,950	4,28,450	4,09,815	4,09,264	4,04,861
Assam	62,500	70,178	72,447	38,625	34,056
Bihar	1,52,075	1,70,194	1,47,000	1,26,278	1,30,411
Chattisgarh	11,866	6,000	Nil	Nil	260
Delhi	33,324	20,101	16,000	12,423	12,000
Goa		260	Nil	Nil	Nil
Gujarat	19,556	19,781	20,203	20,375	21,304
Haryana	12,010	15,045	16,200	18,192	17,915
Himachal Pradesh	17,614	12,054	8,543	19,700	35,135
Jammu & Kashmir	1,31,000	1,25,000	Nil	Nil	9,000
Jharkhand	42,055	51,594	55,965	58,520	59,582
Karnataka	1,02,289	90,000	96,287	96,638	90,000
Kerala	46,11,374	48,78,619	49,29,066	49,41,618	48,20,290
Madhya Pradesh	14,511	14,305	9380	7,985	10,809
Maharashtra	74,985	94,026	92,074	90,367	86,055
Manipur	5,123	4,026	3,884	4,030	3,905
Nagaland		1,500	3,500	7,000	10,500
Odisha	40,200	30,000	23,500	21,750	26,700
Punjab	53,020	53,367	46,029	30,100	33,000
Rajasthan	76,399	73,853	69,975	72,180	77,168
Sikkim	1,500
Tamilnadu	8,44,875	8,45,999	9,45,766	9,28,885	10,53,054
Tripura	5,60,000	6,22,410	6,63,812	7,02,250	7,26,251
Uttarakhand	8,019	7,483	7,040	6,800	5,500
Uttar Pradesh	54,288	54,434	47,000	51,540	54,715
West Bengal	97,64,674	98,51,355	81,33,200	84,92,180	57,50,002
Centre	5	5	5	5	5
Total	1,71,50,232	1,75,40,039	1,58,16,691	1,61,56,705	1,34,72,478