[2] Ghosh himself visited the western parts of Punjab, trying to dissuade local party branches from siding with PCP.
[2] PCP appealed to CPI branches in the North-West Frontier Province, Sindh and Baluchistan to join the new party.
[3] Nevertheless, by the time PCP was formed Punjab was engulfed by communal violence in the days before the Partition of India.
[3] As riots raged, most Sikh and Hindu communist cadres in the western districts of Punjab left for India.
[3] This exodus left the communist movement on the verge of extinction in the lands that would soon form West Pakistan.