The Marxist Co-ordination Committee (MCC) was a

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Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in East India, eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north ...

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, based around the

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region of

Dhanbad Dhanbad is the second-most populated city in the Indian state of Jharkhand after Jamshedpur and a major financial hub of Jharkhand. In terms of economy, Dhanbad has the largest economy in the state of Jharkhand and it is often referred to as th ...

. The Party operated from 1971 to 2024. Marxist Co-ordination Committee since its inception was closely associated with the

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and merged with the party in September 2024. CPI(ML)L held its first meeting after the merger on 10–11 September where five MCC leaders were inducted into its central committee. Originally founded as ''Janwadi Kisan Sangram Samiti'' (') was formed in 1971 after local communist leader A. K. Roy had been expelled from the

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. JKSS was later renamed to the MCC. The party was led by Roy, who has been elected MP three times. Roy was active in the Jharkhand movement and helped develop the organisation which would later become

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. As Jharkhand Mukti Morcha developed into a political party, the relations between the two soured. In 1980, A. K. Roy (then an MP) and K.S. Chatterjee, a member of the

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, were arrested under the National Security Act. In total, Roy has been jailed four times. Chatterjee had been elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly twice as an

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candidate. He joined the

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and won in 1985 on a Congress ticket. He is a prominent trade union leader in the

region and is the President of Bihar Pradesh Colliery Mazdoor Congress. In 1998, the only member of the

representing the MCC, Gurudas Chatterjee, was murdered by the coal mafia. Chatterjee's son, Arup Chatterjee, took over his mandate after a by-poll.

Members of Lok Sabha

Merge in to CPIML

On 9 September 2024, MCC party merge in to CPIML(L) after a rally was organised by the CPIML(L) & Marxist Co-ordination Committee jointly at

. On 11 September 2024, MCC party General Secretary Comrade

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selected as new Central Committee member of CPIML(L).

References

External links

The Hindu, "Candidate Watch : A.K. Roy"
17 April 2004, K. Balchand

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Jharkhand Assembly Election 2005
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