Failing to articulate a common ideological position, COC, CPI(ML) soon suffered internal divisions and splits.
Two of the splinter groups of COC, CPI(ML) in Andhra Pradesh are predecessors of the present-day Communist Party of India (Maoist).
[2] In October 1973 Sharma formed a new Central Committee consisting of himself, Suniti Kumar Ghosh, Sham Chopra and Ram Nath.
[1] The Sharma-led group constituted COC, CPI(ML) as a separate party in February 1974, after having established contacts with a number of state committees.
[6] The Dharmavaram struggle came to an abrupt end when the leader of the movement, Sriramulu, and a number of peasants were killed by landlords.
[6] COC, CPI(ML) claimed a role in industrial strikes in Nizamabad Cement Factory, Usha Engineering and other locations.
[6] RWA members toured Andhra Pradesh and organised mass meetings, accompanied by musical teams from Jana Natya Mandali.
Rather the members of the party leadership were united by rejection of the two other main lines of the Naxal movement at the time, i.e. those of Mahadev Mukherjee and Satyanarayan Singh.
[4][2] 'Road to Revolution' argued that the principal contradiction in Indian context stood between feudalism and the broad masses of the people.
[4] The Andhra and Bihar committees of COC, CPI(ML) continued to adhere to the line of annihilation of class enemies.
[9][10] In 1977 a faction led by Ram Nath, gathering the majorities in the Delhi, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh committees of COC, CPI(ML), broke away and formed the Communist League of India (Marxist-Leninist).
[citation needed] The secretary of the Punjab committee of COC, CPI(ML), Sham Chopra, broke away and joined the T. Nagi Reddy group.
[1] In 1979 what remained of Sharma's COC, CPI(ML) suffered yet another split, as some party leaders in Punjab rejected his support for Deng Xiaoping in China and the Three Worlds Theory.