The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats ( 3 in Lok Sabha and 5 in Rajya Sabha ) and one of the national parties of India.
K. R. Gouri,born Kalathilparambil Raman Gouri, commonly known as Gouri Amma, was an Indian politician from Alappuzha in central Kerala. She was one of the most prominent leaders of the Left movement in India.
Kerala is an Indian state,where federal legislative power is vested in the unicameral Kerala Legislative Assembly. The multilateral system has,since 1956,been dominated by the several pre-poll and post-poll alliances.
Kannoth Muraleedharan is an Indian National Congress (INC) politician from Kerala,the son of eminent congress leader K. Karunakaran. He was elected as member of the Lok Sabha thrice from the Kozhikode constituency,subsequently leaving the party in 2005. For a while he had joined NCP of Sharad Pawar. Then he rejoined Congress. He was elected as the Chairman of KPCC Campaign committee in September 2018. He entered 17th Lok Sabha by winning from the Vatakara in 2019 general elections.
Communism in India has existed as a social or political ideology as well as a political movement since at least as early as the 1920s. In its early years,communist ideology was harshly suppressed through legal prohibitions and criminal prosecutions. Eventually,communist parties became ensconced in national party politics,sprouting several political offshoots.
Melathu Veettil Raghavan was a veteran Communist leader and a former Minister in Kerala state of India. He was the General Secretary of the Communist Marxist Party,an alliance partner in the UDF. Prior to the formation of the CMP he was a prominent leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
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.
P. K. Gurudasan is an Indian politician,trade unionist,and a member of Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the Minister for Excise,Labour and Employment in the Government of Kerala headed by VS Achuthanandan between 2006 and 2011. He represented Kollam Assembly constituency in the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2016. He is also the State President of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and a member of Central Committee of CPI(M). Gurudasan earlier served as the General Secretary of Kerala State unit of CITU.
S. Sharma is an Indian politician who belongs to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He is a former minister for fisheries,registration and harbour engineering,and electricity and co-operation in the Government of Kerala and a member of Kerala State Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist). He represents the Vypeen constituency in the Kerala Legislative Assembly. He has served as the chairman of Kochi Smart City and has been on the board of Cochin International Airport.
V. K. C. Mammed Koya is an Indian politician from Communist Party of India (Marxist),who was the Member of the Legislative Assembly representing Beypore constituency in Kozhikode district in the Kerala Legislative Assembly and was the mayor of Kozhikode corporation. He was also a previous Member of the Legislative Assembly representing Beypore constituency in Kozhikode district in the Kerala Legislative Assembly from the year 2001 to 2006.
Muslim League (Opposition),also rebel Muslim League,renamed as the All India Muslim League in 1980,was an Indian political party formed by the aggrieved leaders of Indian Union Muslim League in Kerala. The party was a member of the Communist Party of India Marxist-led Left front (later Left Democratic Front) in Kerala.
K. Babu is the member of 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly. He is a member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) and represents Nemmara constituency.
United Front,known until 1971 as Mini Front (1970–1971) and as Maxi Front (1971–1979) thereafter,was a coalition of political parties in Kerala state,India,which was the ruling combine in the state from 1970 to 1979. The coalition was formed by five political parties immediately before the 1970 Kerala Legislative Assembly election. It saw the inclusion a few other parties in the following years.
M V Govindan,popularly known as Govindan Master,is an Indian politician from the Communist Party of India (Marxist),and is the current Kerala State Secretary and the party's Politburo member since 2022. He previously served as the State Minister for Local self-governments and Excise in the Second Vijayan Ministry from 2021 to 2022.
Kuttiady State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Vatakara Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2021 assembly elections,the current MLA is K. P. Kunhammed Kutti of CPI (M).
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).
Panackal Varkey Varghese Vaidyar was a Communist Party of India (Marxist) politician from Kerala,India. He represented Sulthan Bathery Assembly constituency in 10th Kerala Legislative Assembly.
C. Govinda Panicker also known as C. G. Panicker was a politician from Kerala,India,who represented Sreekrishnapuram Assembly constituency in the 3rd and 4th Kerala Legislative Assembly as a candidate of Communist Party of India (Marxist). Panicker has won the first three elections since the formation of the Srikrishnapuram constituency in 1965. He was elected to the Kerala Assembly in 1965,1967 and 1971 elections.
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.
