The immediate release of the General Secretary, as well as other cadres and members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), who were arrested on Wednesday, 27 May 2026, following a raid by police special forces on the home of a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party, is demanded in a statement issued by the International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the KKE.
Specifically, the statement of the IRS of the CC of the KKE notes the following:
“On 27 May, 2026, police special forces raided the home of Pinarayi Vijayan, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and former Chief Minister of Kerala.
A solidarity rally was immediately organized, but it was attacked by police forces, who arrested, among others, M.A. Baby, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist); Ashok Dhawale, Mariam Dhawale, and Vijoo Krishnan, members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist); as well as other members of the Central Committee and Party cadres.
The KKE unequivocally condemns these arrests and demands the immediate release of all those detained.
We express our militant solidarity with the Communist Party of India (Marxist), its members, cadres, and General Secretary.
We denounce the deliberate attempt by India’s reactionary bourgeois government to suppress the struggle of the communists and impose a regime of repression in order to implement unhindered the anti-popular policies that serve the interests of capitalist business groups.
We demand the immediate release of all those arrested!
Hands off the Indian communists!”
