Chandigarh: Harmail Singh Cholta, a senior functionary of united Communist Party of India, Punjab unit, resigned primary membership of the party. In a statement, he explained that
U.C.P.I had failed to raise even a little finger against the government of India’s discriminatory policies against Punjab. He also said that the party was a silent spectator of untold repression launched by the Indian government against the people of Punjab. Cholta said that his expectation was that U.CP.I would mark a break with the past and would rear a leader of the calibro of the late Teja Singh Swatantar. But they had been greatly disillusioned by the (old rut in which this party was caught.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 13, 1992
