The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) has expelled its ‘politburo’ member and senior-most leader Kobad Ghandy accusing him of abandoning the 'dialectical and historical materialism, principles of Marxism and class struggle' and 'for selecting the way of getting happiness through mysticism', reports The Free Press Journal on November 30. In a press release dated November 27, 2021, party national ‘spokesperson’ Abhay said that the ‘Central Committee, CC’ was expelling Kobad Ghandy from CPI-Maoist for his anti-party activities, mainly for writing a book named ‘Fractured Freedom- A Prison Memoir’ and releasing it in 2021 after his release from jail in 2019. Abhay also stated that the party had understood that Ghandy was completely separated from Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM). “He (Kobad) also stated that these three aspects of life that have to be woven into any project for change that did not reflect in his 40-year revolutionary life, so put this as goal post before going to change the world. He is also saying that the essence should be grasped from bourgeoisie moral stories. In this way, by selecting the idealist path, he is dishonestly saying that there is no happiness and freedom in the Marxist way of practice that is why Marxism is failed in reaching its target,” Abhay said accusing him of wrongly explaining and commenting on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Ghandy was arrested in New Delhi in 2009 and was released in 2019. He had spent a major part of his prison term in Visakhapatnam Central Jail in Andhra Pradesh.