Punjab Communist Revolutionary Committee

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Punjab Communist Revolutionary Committee, originally the Bhatinda District Committee of AICCCR. The committee was one of the sections that broke away when AICCCR founded CPI(M-L). In June 1976 PCRC merged with UCCRI(ML).

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