The Marxist Co-ordination Committee (MCC, hi, मार्क्सवादी समन्वय समिति, abbreviated मासस 'maasas') is a

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Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in 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 and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . I ...

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. MCC is based in the coal mining region of

Dhanbad Dhanbad is the second-most populated city in the Indian state of Jharkhand after Jamshedpur. It ranks as the 42nd largest city in India and is the 33rd largest million-plus urban agglomeration in India. Dhanbad shares its land borders with P ...

. Originally founded as ''Janwadi Kisan Sangram Samiti'' ('' en, Democratic Peasants' Struggle Association'') was formed in 1971 after local communist leader A. K. Roy had been expelled from the

Communist Party of India (Marxist) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxist–Leninist communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the na ...

. JKSS was later renamed to the MCC. The party is still 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

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Jharkhand Mukti Morcha ( lit. ''Jharkhand Liberation Front''; JMM) is a State political party in the Indian state of Jharkhand which was founded by Binod Bihari Mahato. It has one seat in the 17th Lok Sabha. Shibu Soren is the president of t ...

. 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. Marxist Co-ordination Committee always maintain good relation with CPIML(L) from the beginning.

External links

The Hindu, Candidate Watch : A.K. Roy

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