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The Communist Party of India (CPI) is a national

political party in India. After the communist

revolution, which occurred in Russia in 1917, many

in India wished to cause same kind of revolution inIndia against the British. Under inspiration from

Moscow the Communist Party of India (CPI) was

established.

The Communist Party of India was founded in

Tashkent, Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist

Republic on October 17, 1920, soon after the

Second Congress of the Communist International.


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The founding members of the party were M.N.

Roy, Evelyn Trent Roy (Roy's wife), Abani

Mukherji, Rosa Fitingof (Abani's wife),

Mohammad Ali (Ahmed Hasan), Mohammad

Shafiq Siddiqui and M.P.B.T. Acharya


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The main slogan of the party, 'People's Democracy'

was substituted by 'National Democracy' in 1951.

But soon in 1964, some ideological differenceswithin the party brought about a major split, leading

to the creation of the Communist Party of India

(Marxist), which CPI as the smaller of the Communistentities in India.


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Communism is a socio-political movement that aimsfor a classless and stateless society structured uponcommon ownership of the means of production, freeaccess to articles of consumption, and the end ofwage labour and private property in the means of

production and real estate. Communists such as council communists and non-

Marxist libertarian communists and anarcho-communists, as well as some Marxist-Leninists whohave progressively abandoned many of the basicassumptions of Leninism, oppose the idea of avanguard party and a transition stage, and advocate

for the construction of full communism to beginimmediately upon the abolition of capitalism


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CPI also has some incorporated organizations,

some of which were created to look after

employee welfare at the lower levels of society.

All India Trade Union Congress

All India Youth Federation

All India Students Federation

National Federation of Indian Women

All India Kisan Sabha (peasants organization) Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union (agricultural workers)

All India State Government Employees Federation

(State government employees)


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The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) is the oldest

trade unionfederations in India and one of the five largest.

According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of

Labour, AITUC had a membership of 2,677,979 in 2002.

It was founded on 31 October 1920 in Bombay byLala Lajpat

Raiand a few others and, until 1945 when unions became

organised on party lines, it was the primary trade union

organisation in India. Since then it has been associated with

the Communist Party of India.

AITUC is governed by a body headed by General Secretary

Gurudas Dasgupta, a politician affiliated with Communist

Party of India.

AITUC is a founder member of the World Federation of Trade


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All India Youth Federation is the youth wing ofCommunist Party of India. AIYF is a member ofWorld Federation of Democratic Youth. AIYF wasstarted by Balraj Sahni and P.K. Vasudevan Nair,

among others, in 1959.The All India YouthFederation (AIYF) came into being in 1959.

The youngest member of Delhi MCD fromCommunist Party of India Guru Radha Kishan took

initiative to organise the first meet of upcomingorganisation to be held in Delhi. First conference ofthe All India Youth Federation was held from April28 to May 3, 1959 in Delhi.


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The All India Students Federation (AISF) was thefirst student union in India level.It was founded bystudents] on 12 August 1936 with the banner

Freedom Peace Progress, with the guidance ofNehru.

At that time, it worked for the independence ofIndia. The organisation now works for thebetterment of students.

It believes in peace, progress and scientificsocialism. The AISF has state committees in several

states in India


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A women's organisation set up to support the

struggle of women for equality, justice in political,

social, cultural, educational and economic spheres;

works with women from poor households,

agricultural sector, working women in the formal

and informal sector and takes up legal literacy,

general awareness on gender issues, education andskills development programmes; micro-credit and

marketing facilities are other involvements.


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All India State Government Employees Federation

welcome you to their website. AISGEF is essentiallya trade union organisation representing seven

million state employees and teachers of 25 states

of India With International Affiliation to Trade

Union International Of Public & Allied Employees.


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All India Kisan Sabha is the peasant or farmers' wing

of the Communist Party of India. The Kisan Sabha

movement started in Bihar under the leadership ofSwami Sahajanand Saraswati, who had formed in

1929 the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BPKS) in

order to mobilise peasant grievances against the

zamindari attacks on their occupancy rights.[1]


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Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union (Hindi for

'Indian Land Workers Union') is a trade union

of agricultural labourers in India. BKMU is

politically tied to the Communist Party of India

(CPI). BKMU is independent from both the

main trade union central of CPI, the All India

Trade Union Congress, as well as the farmers'organisation of CPI, the All India Kisan Sabha.


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Communists have been the initiators of the

organized workers, kisan , khet mazdoors,

women and students and youth movements

from the pre-independence to the present day

linking them up with the struggle against

imperialism, feudal princes and monopolists.

They were the organizers and heroes of the

glorious Telengana, Tebhaga, Vayalar

Punnapara, Pepsu and other struggles.


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They believe that power should not be rested in somepeople of the society but should be in the hands ofthe complete society.

They support socialism and not capitalism Communists courageously initiated struggles for

defence of secular polity, national integrity, for therights of workers, for self independent economic

development, dominance of public sector in thenational economy, for land reforms, fair wages to agri-workers, gender justice, education to all, socialsecurity and health care for each and every citizen.


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The CPI was also the government in power in Keralabetween 1970-77, with Congress support, andAchutha Menon was elected as the chief minister. CPIhas also been a part of the Left Front government in

West Bengal, Tripura and intermittently in Kerala inthe last 20 years. In Tamil Nadu it is part of theProgressive Democratic Alliance.

In 1957, CPI emerged as the strongest opposition

party in the assembly elections in Kerala and won.This was the first time in independent Indian historythat an opposition party won control over an Indianstate.


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The CPI has its pockets of influence in states likeAndhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Manipur, Orissa,

Pondicherry, Punjab, etc.

Moreover CPI has been a part of the left frontcoalition in Kerala and West Bengal. In the Lok

Sabha elections of 2004, both the CPI and the CPI

(M) were alliance partners of the Congress.

They are supporting the United Progressive

Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre from

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Indradeep Sihna

was a freedom fighter and veteran communistleader. He was born in a Bhumihar Brahmin family

at Shakara village in Siwan District of Bihar, in July

1914. He had an academic career and secured a

gold medal in post-graduation in Economics fromPatna University in 1938. He chose to serve the

people by fighting for political freedom of the

nation and social and economic justice to its

people. Sinha joined CPI in 1940 and served the

party as state secretary. A lecturer and journalist,

Sinha was Secretary of the Bihar State Council of

the Communist Party of India from 1962 to 1967

and had served as the General Secretar of the All


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Indradeep Sihna

Sinha was also editor of the Hunkar, IndradeepSinha started his legislative career with the

membership of the Bihar Legislative Council,

where he was a member from 1964 to 1974. He

also served as the Minister of Revenues in theUnited Front Government of Bihar from 1967 to

1968. As Revenues Minister, he took several

initiatives to ameliorate the condition of the poor

and took steps for distribution of land to the

landless in the State. Sinha represented the State

of Bihar in the Rajya Sabha for two terms from

April 1974 to April 1980 and again from July 1980

to Jul 1986.


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Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan

Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan or A. B.Bardhan is the general secretary of theCommunist Party of India (CPI), one of theoldest political parties in India. He is fromNagpur and contested many elections from

there winning only one - the 1957 for theMaharashtra State Assembly as anIndependent candidate. He lost the 1967 and1980 Lok Sabha elections contesting fromNagpur. He moved to Delhi politics in the1990s and became the deputy general

secretary of the party. He succeeded IndrajitGupta as the General Secretary of the CPI in1996


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Chelat Achutha Menon (January 1913 - 16 August 1991)

was a senior leader of the Communist Party of India (CPI).

He was the Chief Minister of Kerala state for two terms.

The first term was from 1 November 1969 to 1 August

1970 and the second 4 April 1970 to 25 March 1977.Achutha Menon is widely considered as the best Chief

Minister Kerala state ever had. Acclaimed for his

administrative skills, he was instrumental in starting

number of institutions and development projects in

Kerala. He also secured Sri. V. Bashyam Iyengar Gold

Medal for Hindu Law from Madras University. After a brief

period practising law at Thrissur he entered politics as an

Indian National Congress worker. Then in 1942, he joined

the Communist Party of India.


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He became the finance minister in the first Kerala

Government led by E.M.S during 1957-1959 period.He

presented the first Budget of Kerala state in 7 June 1957. He

stood by the official faction of the party when it split intotwo in 1964. He was remembered as an efficient and

popular Chief minister of Kerala and the only politician who

adorned the chief minister ship of Kerala for two

consecutive terms. Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute of MedicalSciences and Technology was set up during his period. He

was also a philosopher & a gifted writer. He wrote many

books & articles, mostly related to Marxism, Communism

and Indian History.


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EMS was born on June 13, 1909, the son

of Parameswaran Namboodirippad, at

Elamkulam, in Perinthalmanna taluk of

the present Malappuram district. In hisearly years, he was associated with V. T.

Bhattathiripad, M. R. Bhattathiripad and

many others in the fight against the

casteism and conservatism that existedin the Namboothiri community.


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He was considered to be one of the founders of

the Communist Party of India (CPI) in Kerala, for

which he had to go in hiding for some time.During the 1962 Sino-Indian war, he was among

those leaders who aired China's view on the

border issue. When the CPI split in 1964, EMSstood with the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

(CPI(M)). He served as a member of the Central

Committee and the Politburo of the CPI(M),

before becoming its General Secretary in 1977, adesignation he held until 1992. He was a member

of the party Politburo until his death.


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Prabodh Panda (born 7 February 1946) is an Indianpolitician. He is a leader of the Communist Party of India. He

was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha from Midnapore

constituency in West Bengal in a bye-election held on 10

May 2001. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 2004 and2009 from the same constituency.

Panda was born in a Utkal (Oriya) Brahmin family. His father

was Devendra Nath Panda and mother Niradabala Panda.

He graduated in arts from the Dantan Bhattar College,

which was then affiliated with the prestigious and historic

University of Calcutta.


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Shri D.Raja, was born on 3rdjune in 1949 in the

Chithathoor, Distt, Vellore (Tamil Nadu) . He is a

qualified B.Sc., B.Ed ,educated at G.T.M. College,

Gudiyattam, Distt. Vellore, affiliated to University of

Madras, Chennai and Government Teachers College,

affiliated to University of Madras, Chennai.

Positions Held by D.Raja- July 2007 elected toRajya Sabha Aug. 2007-May 2009 Member, Committee

on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests

Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry ofHuman Resource Development May 2008 onwards

Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Security

Matters in Parliament House Complex Member,

Committee on Rules June 2008 onwards Member,

General Purposes Committee July 2008-May 2009 andJan.


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2010 onwards Member, Parliamentary Forum on Global

Warming and Climate Change July 2009 onwards Member,

Committee on Ethics Aug. 2009 onwards Member,

Committee on Home Affairs Member, Committee on the

Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Member,

Consultative Committee for the Ministry of External Affairs

Permanent Special Invitee, Consultative Committee for the

Ministry of Human Resource Development Oct. 2009

onwards Member, Joint Committee on Food Management in

Parliament House Complex Dec. 2009 onwards Member,

Select Committee to examine the Commercial Division of

High Courts Bill, 2009 Nov. 2010 onwards Member,

Committee on Member of Parliament Local Area

Develo ment Scheme MPLADS

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