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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) or the CPI(M), which is India’s largest communist party (with over one million members), is preparing to hold its party congress in April. In the months leading up to the congress, the CPI(M) held state conferences to debate the issues of the day and to elect delegates to the congress. During this period, the draft political declaration was circulated.
In it, the CPI(M) does not characterise the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as fascist, but as having “fascistic tendencies” and — for the first time — it referred to the category of “neofascism.” Because of this apparent non-use of the direct term “fascism,” other left forces and some left-liberal intellectuals began to attack the CPI(M), saying that the party was not clear about the role of the BJP and its three-term government in India since 2014.
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