Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
Press Release
September 20, 2025
It is not our policy to betray the interests of the people by surrendering weapons to the enemy and joining the
people's lifeline.
Our duty is to continue the class struggle - the people's war - to advance the revolutionary movement in the rear in
accordance with the changed social situation .
Since September 17, a press release issued by our party's Polit Bureau (PB) member Comrade Sonu
under the name Abhay, its audio file, and an appeal to the revolutionary people have been widely
circulated in print, electronic and digital media. 'In view of the changed international and domestic
situation, and in view of the appeals being made by the Prime Minister, the Home Minister and the top
police officers to lay down arms and join the flow of life, we have decided to lay down arms,' he
announced in it. He also said that this is part of the efforts made by our party's late General Secretary
Amarudu Comrade Basavaraj for peace talks. This announcement made by Comrade Sonu is his
personal decision. Our Central Committee, Polit Bureau and Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee
completely reject and condemn this announcement made by him.
The changed international and domestic circumstances do not suggest abandoning the armed struggle.
On the contrary, they highlight the need to continue the armed struggle. Imperialist exploitation and
oppression of the oppressed races and peoples of backward countries are becoming more intense. In
capitalist and imperialist countries, the capitalist class is further intensifying the exploitation and
oppression of the working class and middle class people there in the name of 'austerity measures'. The
exploiting classes there are implementing fascism and racism. All this is the result of the imperialist
economic and political crisis that is intensifying day by day. In our country, foreign and domestic big
corporations belonging to the imperialist, broker-dealer capitalists are intensifying the exploitation and
oppression in all sectors of social life, including the agricultural, industrial and service sectors. With
this, the broad masses (oppressed classes, oppressed social groups, oppressed tribes) in urban, plain and
forest areas are highlighting the need to further expand and intensify the class struggle against the
alliance of imperialist, broker-dealer, autocratic capitalist and landlord classes. The Brahminical
Hindutva fascist RSS-BJP is highlighting the need to resist the fascist attacks being carried out by the
central and state governments on the broad masses of the country in all spheres of social life. Economic
and social gaps are increasing sharply worldwide and in our country. Neither in our country nor in the
world have the daily problems of the people nor the fundamental problems been solved. In this
situation, today's situations in our country nor in the world highlight the need to continue the armed
struggle while coordinating legal-illegal, secret-open struggle and structural forms.
Comrade Sonu's statement that the disarmament was part of the efforts made by our party's General
Secretary Amarudu Comrade Basavaraju (BR) for peace talks is a distortion of the facts. Although
Amarudu Comrade Basavaraju had announced in his statement of May 7 that he would discuss the
disarmament with our core group, he soon realized the error in it and, since the central and state
governments were continuing the Kagar war while ignoring the mention of peace talks made by our
party, he called on the entire party, PLGA and revolutionary camp to withdraw it and resist the 'Kagar'
war. It is under his guidance that today the party, PLGA and revolutionary camp across the country are
resisting the 'Kagar' war to the best of their ability in legal and illegal forms. Comrade Sonu has
deliberately distorted this fact. This malicious distortion is vile and condemnable.
"Collecting the opinions of party members and party committees at various levels on the issue of laying
down arms and joining the mainstream of public life, collecting the opinions of our party workers and
leaders who are in prison, and collecting the opinions of revolutionary sympathizers, democratic,
progressive, left-wing forces and organizations is an evil plan to split our party. We request Comrade
Sonu to abandon this evil plan. We call on public organizations, party members, party committees at
various levels, party leaders who are in prison, party members, revolutionary sympathizers, democratic,
progressive, left-wing forces and organizations to reverse this evil plan." Comrade Sonu, in his
statement titled ‘Appeal to the People of the Revolution’, said that the Indian revolutionary movement
had been defeated and that the reason for this was the mistakes of the party in adopting extremist
tactics. If he thought that the party had adopted extremist tactics, it was his responsibility as a member
of the Politburo to remain in the party and work to correct them. But he decided to reject this
revolutionary method and join the stream of people’s life.
“At least now, the only remaining task before the party is to abandon the dogmatic practice of the
Chinese and Russian lines, regardless of the changes in circumstances and time, and to strive to make
the Indian revolution victorious in a line suitable to the time and place of India,” he stated in the
‘Appeal to the Revolutionary People’ statement. If the line the party is following is dogmatic, then he
can formulate an alternative line and wage a struggle between the two lines within the party. He is not
ready for that. Rejecting the armed struggle and declaring a temporary cessation of armed struggle
means deceiving the party cadres and the people.
According to the theory of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the central task of the revolution is to seize
state power. For this, we will wage armed struggle with armed force. Whether in the line of protracted
people's war or in the line of universal uprising, the oppressed classes seize power by overthrowing the
exploiting classes from power through armed force. Since our country is a semi-colonial and semi-
feudal country, our party is practicing the line of protracted people's war that seizes power region by
region. Therefore, deciding to lay down arms and go for peace talks is contrary to the theory of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and our political-military line.
To lay down arms means to hand them over to the enemy, to surrender to the enemy. To hand over arms
to the enemy, surrender and cease armed struggle in the name of a temporary ceasefire means that a
revolutionary party becomes a revisionist party.
Surrendering weapons to the enemy means betraying the martyrs and the broad masses of the country
(oppressed classes, oppressed social groups, oppressed races). This is a blatant modern revisionism and
revolutionary betrayal. Therefore, we demand that party members, party committees at all levels, party
members in prison, party leaders, and revolutionary sympathizers strongly condemn the revolutionary
betrayal of Sonu, who is preparing to surrender to the enemy by surrendering weapons to the enemy. If
he and his followers want to surrender to the enemy, they can surrender, but they do not have the
authority to surrender the weapons belonging to the party to the enemy. That is why we demand that
they surrender them to the party. If they do not surrender them amicably, we direct the PLGA to seize
the weapons from them. It would be deceitful for him to declare a temporary ceasefire, since he rejects
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