Also, following the Sino-Soviet differences of International Communist Movement, the Party leadership under Dange was pursuing the USSR line,
which the pro-Chinese leadership within the Party called revisionist.
In May 1924,
the Session Judge at Kanpur had sentenced four of the accused- Dange, Usmani, N. B,
Das Gupta and Muzaffar Ahmad- to four years' rigorous imprisonment while charges against Roy were kept pending.