CPI and CPI(ML) Liberation today condoled the death of Kanu Sanyal, the founder of the Naxalite movement, saying the recent Maoist tactics of assassinations and targeting common people "deeply depressed him".
Mourning his death, the CPI said though there were sharp differences between the party and Sanyal over the Naxalbari
truggle, there was no denying the fact that its objective was
to build a revolutionary peasant movement in the country
against exploitation and oppression.
Sanyal, along with Charu Mazumdar and Jangal Santhal, had launched a militant peasant movement from the Naxalbari
village in West Bengal in 1969 after splitting from the
CPI(M). They later formed the CPI(ML).
The party said that Sanyal in recent period had been a sharp critic of the Maoist tactics. He was deeply disturbed by the ultras' approach as purposeless violence does not advance the cause of the Communist movement, the CPI said.
Sanyal's body was found hanging at his residence at Seftullajote village, 25 km from Siliguri in West Bengal yesterday. He is suspected to have committed suicide.
Condoling his death, CPI(ML) Liberation said Sanyal remained politically active till the end of his life, especially in the struggles of tea garden workers in Darjeeling district.
"He organised several groups on the lines of organised committees of Communist revolutions in an attempt to unite
various groups. He also launched the new CPI(ML) -- the party
he later denounced," the party said.
Condoling his death yesterday, CPI(M) had termed his demise as "very unfortunate".
The party's Politburo member Sitaram Yechury had said Sanyal had been critical of the line adopted by Maoists for quite some time.
"His death is very unfortunate. Of late, particularly after Nandigram and Lalgarh, he has been saying that the line adopted by Maoists do not conform to the revolutionary understanding (which was adopted) at the time when they had started the Naxalite movement" in late 1960s, Yechury had said.
