CC criticized the Vajpayee government for its complete security and diplomatic failure in Kargil and its jingoistic war-cries. It called upon the people for exerting pressure for a peaceful political solution. (See also editorial)

The CPI (ML) Central Committee has also expressed serious concern over the growing intensity of state repression over peaceful democratic movements of the masses. Incidents of indiscriminate and cold-blooded police firing as on the Chilka fisher-folks in Orissa are being reported from different parts of the country. In Bihar an undeclared Emergency has been clamped down and hundreds of CPI (ML) activists and thousands of supporters have been thrown behind the bars on false and fabricated charges. The Party will therefore conduct a countrywide campaign against state repression and for human rights from June 25 to July 1. In Bihar, the Party will launch a powerful campaign for the release of political prisoners.

Regarding the coming elections, the Central Committee directed all state and district units of the Party to begin poll preparations in right earnest. The Party is highly critical of the pro-Congress pro-RJD direction being followed by the CPI and CPI (M) and the readiness being shown by the JD and some other parties to join hands with the BJP-Samata combine. Pawar-Sangma's newly formed Nationalist Congress has shown by the day its birth that it cannot go beyond BJP-led Coalition or Sonia Congress.

CPI (ML) will stick to its consistent anti-BJP anti-Congress orientation and work for consolidation of left and democratic forces. The Party will intensify anti-BJP anti-Congress political and ideological campaign with the main thrust against saffron designs, maintaining a sharp demarcation from the Congress and third front pretenders. The Party will focus on secularism, self-reliance and people's welfare, social justice and democracy and on exposure of pseudo-nationalism and chauvinism.