The Khalistan movement is an independence movement seeking to create a separate homeland for Sikhs by establishing an ethno‐religious sovereign state called Khalistan in the Punjab region of India. The proposed boundaries of Khalistan vary between different groups;some suggest the entirety of the Sikh-majority Indian state of Punjab,while larger claims include Pakistani Punjab and other parts of North India such as Chandigarh,Haryana,and Himachal Pradesh. Shimla and Lahore have been proposed as the capital of Khalistan.
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy is a communist political party in India. The party was founded as a breakaway from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) in 1988. The 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.
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 Polit Bureau from 1964 to 2008.
The Indian People's Front (IPF) was a mass front organisation founded in Delhi between 24–26 April 1982. It was conceptualised by Vinod Mishra and it was operated as the open mass front of the CPIML Liberation between 1982–1994. The front primarily worked for the social and economic upliftment of Adivasis,Dalits and impoverished sections of society and mobilised them through the means of unions,rallies and conventions.
Avtar Singh Sandhu,who wrote under the pen name Pash,was an Indian poet,one of the major poets in Punjabi of the 1970s. He was killed by Sikh extremists on 23 March 1988. His strongly left-wing views were reflected in his poetry.
The Khalistan Commando Force (KCF) is a Sikh Khalistani militant organisation operating in the state of Punjab,India with prominent members based in Canada,United Kingdom and Pakistan. Its objective is the creation of a Sikh independent state of Khalistan through armed struggle. KCF is also responsible for many assassinations in India,including the 1995 assassination of Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh. It is designated as a Terrorist Organisation by the Government of India.
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 Marxist–Leninist–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.
Sukhdev Singh Dhillon,also known as General Labh Singh and Sukha Sipahi was an Indian militant,police officer,and Sikh separatist who took command of the Khalistan Commando Force after its first leader,Manbir Singh Chaheru,was arrested in 1986.
Jangal Santhal,also known as Jangal Santal was an Indian political activist.
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 Mann was a left-wing activist of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy. He was a state level leader of Kirti Kisan Union and the editor of Hirawal Dasta,a revolutionary journal of the Naxalites.
Deepak Dhawan was the State Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) representing Punjab and also Joint Secretary of Khet Mazdoor Union,a mass organisation of CPI(M),which campaigns for the rights of landless agricultural labourers. He was a member of All India Students' Federation (AISF) in D.A.V College,Amritsar,and an elected President of Student Council at Guru Nanak Dev University. On 19 May 1987,he was killed by Khalistan movement extremists at Sangha village,Tarn Taran district.
Jaimal Singh Padda was an Indian writer,poet and 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 In Memory of Friends.
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. On the 27 of March 1986,during the insurgency in Punjab,India,Sikh militants killed Arjan Singh Mastana a Punjab MLA for the Communist Party of India. Mastana had raised armed squads to oppose Sikh militants. Sikh militants pretending to be cops that were beating fake peasants. This lured Mastana out. He was then killed by the Sikh militants.
Naxalbari uprising was an armed peasant revolt in 1967 in the Naxalbari block of Siliguri subdivision in Darjeeling district,West Bengal,India. It was mainly led by tribals and the radical communist leaders of Bengal and further developed into the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) in 1969. The armed struggle became an inspiration to the Naxalite movement which rapidly spread from West Bengal to other states of India creating division within the Communist Party of India (Marxist) - India's primary communist party.
