More than seven decades after the Indian communists gave the slogan of "ye azadi jhoota hai", the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to mark the country's independence day with fanfare on August 15 and will hoist the national flag at all its party offices.

The decision to mark the day was made at an online meeting of the central committee of the CPI(M), which became the principal Left party in India after the split in the undivided CPI in 1964, on Sunday.

"It has been decided that the national tricolour would be hoisted at every party office on the occasion of 75th Independence day," CPI(M) Central Committee member Sujan Chakraborty told the media on Sunday, our New Delhi correspondent reports.

The undivided Communist Party of India, led by patriarchs like Jyoti Basu, Bhupesh Gupta and others, had come out with the slogan "ye azadi jhoota hai" soon after India's independence in 1947, contending that it will only help the capitalists but not the proletariat.

Chakraborty, also a senior functionary of the party's West Bengal state committee, however, rejected the contention that the party is observing the day for the first time saying that it was celebrated earlier also but in a different manner.

The national tricolour will flutter along with the red flag of the party, which will be seen for the first time on August 15 atop CPI(M) offices, another party leader said.

The CPI(M), which had for decades espoused the cause of communist internationalism and scorned nationalism, had been wiped out in the 2021 assembly polls in West Bengal, which was attributed by political analysts to the party's growing disconnect with the electorate.