The Central Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) while reviewing the Lok Sabha results observed that there is decline in the mass base of the Party and the Party had failed to expand its political influence and increase its organizational strength. In order to find out the reasons for the present situation, the CC had decided to review the political-tactical line Party has been pursuing, to study the changes in the socio-economic conditions since liberalization and their impact on various classes and to review the functioning of the Party organization and mass fronts.

AT its 21st Congress, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) redoubled its resolve for strengthening the Party, the class and mass organisations and unleashing powerful people’s struggles for forging the Left and democratic front, based on a programmatic alternative to the current policies being pursued by the Indian ruling classes, with the eventual aim of replacing the bourgeois-landlord class rule by the People’s Democratic Front led by the working class.