The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats,and one of the national parties of India. The party was founded through a splitting from the Communist Party of India in 1964 and it quickly became the dominant faction.
The Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest communist party in India. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur on 26 December 1925.
E. Balanandan was an Indian politician and a trade union leader from the Kerala State of India. He had been a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)'s politburo since 1978. Born in Sakthikulangara,Kollam district,he was the son of Kunjiraman Channar and Unnikaali Easwari. His wife Sarojini Balanandan was a former CPI(M) State Committee member.
R. Bindu is an Indian politician of CPI(M),who serves as Minister for Higher Education and Social Justice,Government of Kerala.
Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union which translates to '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.
Ramkrishna Suryabhan Gavai,popularly known as Dadasaheb Gavai,was an Indian politician,social activist,senior leader of the Ambedkarite movement,and founder of the Republican Party of India (Gavai). He was the President of Ambedkar's ideological party Republican Party of India,through this party,he did many works in political and social fields. Gavai also worked with Babasaheb Ambedkar,a polymath. He was the Governor of the three states of Bihar,Sikkim and Kerala,as well as he has served in both houses of the Indian Parliament,the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. Gavai was a 30-year member (MLC) of the Maharashtra Legislative Council during which he served on the posts of the chairman,the deputy chairman,and the Opposition leader of the council.
Kannoth Muraleedharan is an Indian National Congress politician. He was the MP from Vatakara,Kerala. He lost the 2024 Lok Sabha election from Thrissur constituency. He is the son of Congress leader K. Karunakaran. He was elected as an MP from Kozhikode constituency and from Vatakara constituency (2019). He was elected as an MLA from Vattiyoorkkavu constituency.
Kurisinkal Sebastian Manoj is an Indian politician and physician. He hails from Kerala and was a Member of Parliament for the 14th Lok Sabha,representing Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate. He won against Indian National Congress leader V. M. Sudheeran in the 2004 Indian general election in Kerala. He contested the 2009 Lok Sabha elections again from the same constituency,losing to Indian National Congress (INC) candidate K. C. Venugopal.
K. P. Prabhakaran was a communist politician and trade unionist from Kerala,India. He was a senior leader of the Communist Party of India,served as Health Minister of Kerala for one period. At the time of his death,he was the chairman of the State Control Commission of CPI.
M. K. Raghavan is an Indian Politician. He is a Member of Lok Sabha and a Secretary of Congress Parliamentary Party.
M.P. Abdussamad Samadani is an Indian politician,orator,writer and scholar. He knows Malayalam,English,Urdu,Hindi,Arabic,Persian and Sanskrit languages. Samadani was awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi.
K. Radhakrishnan is an Indian politician who is the CPI(M) Parliamentary Party Leader in 18th Lok Sabha and Member of the Lok Sabha for Alathur since 2024. A veteran leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),Radhakrishnan previously served as a State Minister of Kerala from 2021 to 2024,and from 1996 to 2001.
Samar Mukherjee was an Indian Communist leader who served as member of the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India for the Howrah constituency for three consecutive terms,and as a member of the Rajya Sabha. He was a member of the Polit Bureau,member of the Central Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) and he was also the General Secretary CITU.
P. Rajeev is an Indian politician,who currently serves as the Minister for Industries,Law and Coir in the Government of Kerala. He represents Kalamassery constituency in the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
T.J. Chandrachoodan was an Indian politician. He was the general secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) in 2008 to 2018.
Vellamvelly Muraleedharan is an Indian politician from Kerala who served as Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs of India from 2019 to 2024. He was the eighth State President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala. He was also a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He was sworn in as a Union Minister on 30 May 2019. On 12 June 2019,Muraleedharan was appointed Government Deputy Chief Whip in the Rajya Sabha.
P. A. Mohammed Riyas is an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister for Public Works Department and Tourism,Government of Kerala. He is the Kerala state committee member of far left CPI(M),and the former All India President of the DYFI.
Girija Surendran is an Indian politician and former member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. She is a central committee member of the All India Democratic Women's Association and a Kerala state committee member from the Palakkad district committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
P. K. Kunjachan was a Communist Party of India (Marxist) politician from Kerala,India. Before formation of Kerala state he was a member of the Tirukochi Legislative Assembly during the period 1954-1956. After formation of the state,he represented the Mavelikara constituency in the first and second Kerala Legislative Assemblies and the Pandalam constituency in the Third Legislative Assembly. Kunjachan was a member of Rajya Sabha from 1973–79 and 1988-91.
