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.
Jyoti Basu was an Indian Marxist theorist,communist activist,and politician. He was one of the most prominent leaders of Communist movement in India. He served as the 6th and longest serving Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000. He was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the member of Politburo of the party since its formation in 1964 till 2008. He was also the member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly 11 times. In his political career,spanning over seven decades,he was noted to have been the India's longest serving chief minister in an elected democracy,at the time of his resignation. He declined the post of Prime Minister after the 1996 Indian general election after the CPM refused to let him as head a multi-party coalition as would not be able to implement Marxist programs and relinquished the prime ministership to Deve Gowda.
Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian actor,producer and politician who predominantly worked in Hindi and Bengali language language films. He is a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament. He is the recipient of three National Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards. In January 2024,Chakraborty was awarded Padma Bhushan,the third-highest civilian honour,by the Government of India. He is the record holder in the Limca Book of Records for 19 movie releases as lead actor in the year 1989,and the record is still unbroken in Bollywood.
The 14th Lok Sabha was convened after the 2004 Indian general election held in four phases during 20 April –10 May 2004,which led to the formation of first Manmohan Singh ministry (2004–2009). Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance won 62 more seats than previous 13th Lok Sabha. The Lok Sabha is the lower house in the Parliament of India. 8 sitting members from Rajya Sabha,the Upper House of Indian Parliament,were elected to 14th Lok Sabha after the 2004 Indian general election.
Swapan Dasgupta is an Indian journalist and politician. He is influential within the Indian right wing,writing columns for leading English dailies espousing Hindu nationalism. He was a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha. In 2015,Dasgupta was conferred with the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to literature and education.
Sitaram Yechury is an Indian Marxist politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),and a member of the Politburo of the CPI(M) since 1992. Previously,he was a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from West Bengal from 2005 to 2017.
Mohammed Salim is an Indian politician,who is the incumbent State Secretary in West Bengal of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was inducted in the politburo of CPI(M) in the 21st party congress organised at Visakhapatnam in 2015. He was a Member of the 16th Lok Sabha,representing Raiganj constituency. Earlier,he was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha,representing the Calcutta North East constituency of West Bengal. After delimitation,in the 2009 Lok Sabha election Salim contested the new Calcutta North constituency,and lost to Sudip Bandyopadhyay of the Trinamool Congress. Mohammed Salim is contesting the 2024 Indian general election as the Left Front candidate from the Murshidabad.
Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya is an Indian Communist politician and lawyer. He is currently serving as a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He is serving as the CPI(M) parliamentary party leader in Rajya Sabha since 3 July 2024. He served as Mayor of Kolkata from 2005 to 2010,heading the Kolkata Municipal Corporation,led by the Left Front in the state of West Bengal.
Politics in West Bengal is dominated by the following major political parties:the All India Trinamool Congress,the Communist Party of India (Marxist),the Bharatiya Janata Party,and the Indian National Congress. For many decades,the state underwent gruesome and terrible political violence. Since the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election,it has been governed by the Trinamool Congress party. Previously,it was ruled by Left Front led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for over three decades.
Mohammed Amin was an Indian politician from the Communist Party of India (Marxist),the largest communist party in India. He was a Vice President of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions.
Swapan Sadhan Bose,also known as Tutu Bose,is an Indian politician from All India Trinamool Congress who was a Member of the Parliament of India representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Parliament.
Ashok Mitra was an Indian economist and Marxist politician. He was a chief economic adviser to the Government of India and later became finance minister of West Bengal and a member of the Rajya Sabha.
Derek O'Brien is an Indian politician,television personality and quiz master. He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal and member of the AITC. He is the chief national spokesperson as well as leader of the AITC Parliamentary party in the Rajya Sabha. He has been suspended several times from parliament. Prior to his Parliamentary career,he became well known as the quizmaster for the Bournvita Quiz Contest and other shows.
Mausam Benazir Noor is an Indian politician serving as Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from West Bengal and Vice Chairperson of West Bengal Commission for Women. She has served as President of Malda district TMC. She has also served as a Member of Lok Sabha for Maldaha Uttar from 2009 until 2019.
Anant Prasad Sharma was an Indian Railway Union leader,politician who became Minister of State for Industry,and Union Minister of the government of India. He was also the Governor of the State of Punjab and the State of West Bengal. He was a member of the 3rd Lok Sabha and 5th Lok Sabha from Buxar. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha three times,in 1968–1971,1978–1983 and 1984–1988.
Arpita Ghosh,is an Indian theatre artist and politician who serves as a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from West Bengal. She has served as the Member of Parliament of the 16th Lok Sabha for Balurghat,West Bengal. She won the 2014 Indian general election being an All India Trinamool Congress candidate.
Ananda Pathak was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India from Darjeeling,West Bengal as a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Earlier he was a member of the upper house of the Parliament of India,the Rajya Sabha and West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
The Left Front is an alliance of left-wing political parties in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was formed in January 1977,the founding parties being the Communist Party of India (Marxist),All India Forward Bloc,the Revolutionary Socialist Party,the Marxist Forward Bloc,the Revolutionary Communist Party of India and the Biplobi Bangla Congress. Other parties joined in later years,most notably the Communist Party of India.
Dipen Ghosh is an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament,representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament as a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Suresh Chandra Majumdar was an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament,representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament as a member of the Indian National Congress.
