Kavita Krishnan on Thursday said that the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation has relieved her of all party posts and responsibilities on her request.
Krishnan was a politburo member of the CPI(ML) and had been a member of its Central Committee for over two decades.
In her social media post, Kavita Krishnan said that she made the request to CPI(M-L) as she needed to pursue “certain troubling political questions which would not have been possible if she continued to be a CPI(M-L) leader.
Krishnan said it was not enough to discuss the regimes of the former Soviet Union, its chief Joseph Stalin and that of China as “failed socialisms”. Krishnan said, they were some of the “world’s worst authoritarianisms”.
“…For our fight for democracy against fascism and growing totalitarianism in India to be consistent, we must acknowledge the entitlement to the same democratic rights and civil liberties for all people across the world, including subjects of socialist totalitarian regimes past and present,” read her Facebook post.
There was a need to recognise the importance of “defending liberal democracies with all their flaws against rising forms of authoritarian and majoritarian populisms”, she said.
Earlier through social media posts, Krishnan criticised China and USSR.
Krishnan on 26 June described China as a dystopian nightmare.
“If any Indian communist thinks it’s ok for ‘communists’ to rule like this, then they should ask themselves what kind of democracy they’re fighting for in India,” she had remarked.
She wrote on 3 July on Twitter that the industrialisation of the USSR under Stalin became possible due to “the violent subjugation of Ukraine’s peasants [starvation, execution, exile] and colonial expropriation of Ukraine’s grain”.
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