The Khalistan movement is a Sikh separatist movement and an ideology supporting means to establish an independent within India called Khalistān, in the Punjab region. The proposed state would consist of land that currently forms Punjab, India and Punjab, Pakistan,
The Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) was an Indian communist party formed by the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (AICCCR) at a congress in Calcutta in 1969. The foundation of the party was declared by Kanu Sanyal at a mass meeting in Calcutta on 22 April, Vladimir Lenin's birthday. Later the party splintered into several minor Naxal/Maoist groups.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) (Liberation) also referred to as the Liberation group is a communist political party in India.
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy is a communist political party in India. The party was founded as a breakaway from the CPI (ML) of Chandra Pulla Reddy in 1988. The all India general secretary of this party is Yatendra Kumar.
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Central Team was formed in 1977 when activists from Punjab, Maharashtra and West Bengal of Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) of Satyanaryan Singh revolted against the party leadership. CPI(ML) Central Team reaffirmed the legacy of Charu Majumdar.
Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Maoist), was a communist group based in Punjab. RCCI(M) was formed in 1995, as the Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Marxist-Leninist) was divided into two. The secretary of RCCI(M) was Shamsher Singh Sheri.
Harkishan Singh Surjeet was an Indian Communist politician from Punjab, who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from 1992 to 2005 and was a member of the party's Political Bureau from 1964 to 2008.
The Indian People's Front was a mass organisation founded in Delhi between 24–26 April 1982. It was conceptualised by Vinod Mishra and operated as the open front of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation between 1982–1994. The front primarily worked for the social and economic upliftment of adivasis, dalits and other impoverished sections of society and mobilised them through the means of unions, agitation rallies and conventions.
The Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) was one of the largest two armed Maoist groups in India, and fused with the other, the People's War Group in September 2004, to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
Darshan Singh Canadian was a Sikh trade union activist and Communist organizer in Canada and India.
The Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist is a Maoist insurgent organization in Turkey involved in the Maoist military strategy of people's war against the Turkish government. It was founded in 1972 by a group of former members of the Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey (RWPPT), organised by İbrahim Kaypakkaya as TKP (M-L), who wished to carry out armed struggle.
Baba Bujha Singh was an Indian revolutionary leader. He was an activist of the Ghadar Party and later became a key leader of the Lal Communist Party. Singh later became a symbol of the Naxalite movement in Punjab.
Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri was an Indian politician. He was the oldest surviving member of the founding Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Baldev Singh Mann was a left-wing activist of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist). He was the editor of Hirawal Dasta a revolutionary journal of the Naxalites. On September 26,1990, he was killed by Khalistan movement extremists while on his way to his village, Chinna Bagga, in Amritsar district of Punjab.
Deepak Dhawan was the State Committee member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Punjab (India) and Joint Secretary of Khet Mazdoor Union, a mass organisation of CPI(M), which fights for the rights of landless agricultural labourers. He was a member of All India Students Federation (AISF) in D.A.V College, Amritsar & an elected President of Student Council of Guru Nanak Dev University. On 19 May 1987, he was killed by the Khalistan movement extremists at village Sangha, Tarn Taran district.
Jaimal Singh Padda was a poet, communist activist. He was shot dead on 17 March 1988 in Lakhan ka Padda village, Kapurthala district by Khalistan movement extremists. He was filmed reciting his poem Una Mitterandi Yaad Pyari, before his death, by Anand Patwardhan in his documentary Una Mitterandi Yaad Pyari.
Arjan Singh Mastana was well-known communist leader of Punjab. He was elected to the Punjab legislative assembly from Valtoha constituency on the Communist Party of India's election symbol. He was assassinated on 27 March 1986 by Khalistani terrorists.
Central Organising Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) was a communist party in India, one of the main splinter factions of the original Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist). COC, CPI(ML) occupied a middle position between the pro-Charu Majumdar group led by Mahadev Mukherjee and the anti-Majumdar group led by Satyanarayan Singh. Failing to articulate a common ideological position, COC, CPI(ML) soon suffered internal divisions and splits. Two of the splinter groups of COC, CPI(ML) in Andhra Pradesh are predecessors of the present-day Communist Party of India (Maoist).
Kanwaljeet Singh is an activist, author working in various social and political organisations. He is currently a member of the central committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, the state president of the Chandigarh Unit of All India Central Council of Trade Unions. He has worked as state president of the Punjab unit of Revolutionary Youth Association. He graduated as engineer in Mechatronics and Industrial Automation from Indo Swiss, Central Scientific Instruments Organisation Chandigarh. He also holds a Master of Art in Philosophy degree from Panjab University. He briefly worked as an Engineer in GE Healthcare and NCR Corporation. In 2005, he left his job to join a social movement for justice for Bant Singh. As an author he has published articles on op-ed pages of Punjabi Tribune and Nawan Zamana. In his early days into activism he was a theatre activist performing street and stage plays. He acted in a film The Fourth Direction as Jugal one of the main protagonist.
