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| PROGRAMME
DOCUMENT OF COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA |
| PROGRAMME |
| Before independence the, Communist Party of
India characterized the Indian revolution as a two stage process in which the current
anti-imperialist, anti-feudal stage (a national-democratic -stage) would be followed by
the anti-capitalist (the socialist) stage. The party broadly followed the strategy of
national democratic front of the working class, peasantry, the middle classes and the
national bourgeoisie. Achievement of Indian
independence in 1947 ushered in a new epoch, a historic event for India and the world.
This was the result of an unprecedented mass upsurge in India and the new correlation of
forces in the world. |
| NEW STAGE OF THE
REVOLUTION |
| This signified victory for the national
revolution though the course of events had developed differently than the CPI had
conceived or anticipated. It was also accompanied by partition, with its dire
consequences. Nevertheless, it opened great opportunities for Indian people to march
forward to consolidate political independence and national sovereignty and work for
economic independence. Our people were called upon to carry forward the revolution to a
new stage, the stage of completion of the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal tasks of
rejuvenating and building a self–raliant, democratic and vibrant economy, of ensuring
better living standards for our people and enlarging and enriching the field of democracy,
building democratic institution and ensuring individual rights and democratic liberties
and rapid cultural advance. |
THE
ADVANCE AND NEW STAGE
| Great gains have been won in
this period the achievement of a sovereign national state adoption of a constitution based
on secular-democracy and parliamentary form of government with elections based on adult
franchise and multi-party system, separation of the legislature, the executive and the
judiciary; a federal type of government with allocation of powers to the center and the
states. With all the class limitations, these are big strides forward. A general consensus
had been arrived at on many of the basics in the course of the national liberation
struggle. |
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A historic gain has been the liquidation of the feudal princely states, merger of
their former territories with adjoining areas and India’s reorganization on
linguistic lines broadly, in accordance with the democratic
Principles and aspirations of the people in this multi-lingual, multi-national
country. It was virtually a revolution from below and from above which overcame the
procrastinations and attempts at slideback of the ruling circles from their open and
repeated commitments to the people. Powerful and united mass movements in which the
communists played a prominent role, along with other firm anti-feudal forces, made
possible this historic gain. India’s national integration was carried forward and
political consolidation of the linguistic andethic units with recognition of their
identities broadly achieved, opening broad vistas of economic, cultural and political
development for them.The national bourgeois
leadership of the Indian national congress, to which power was transferred in 1947 in
partitioned India, took the initiative in working out of the constitution and building the
new state of independent India.
The state machine and apparatus was built up through
contradictions and also compromises with imperialism and feudalism. A huge
over–centralised and top-heavy state machine has been built up. Administering the
vast country with its highly complex society, it has also developed negative features of
bureaucratization, over–centralisation, pervasive corruption and growing network of
mafias based on politicians-police-criminal linkage, acting in both the economic and
political fields.
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