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.
Somnath Chatterjee was an Indian politician who was associated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for most of his life,though he had been a non affiliated independent during his last decade. He was the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009.
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was an Indian nationalist and political leader,and former president of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League during the Indian Independence Movement. He was one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia University. He remained it's chancellor from 1928 to 1936.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is an Indian politician and was the Union Minister of Minority Affairs. He had served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from 2002 to 2022 and was Deputy Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha between 2021 and 2022.
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.
Afzal Ansari is an Indian politician of the Samajwadi Party and currently an incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) of India for Ghazipur constituency,Uttar Pradesh. He won the 2004 and 2019 Indian general election.
Varkala V. Radhakrishnan was an Indian politician and member of the 14th Lok Sabha. He also has served as the speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly. He represented the Chirayinkil constituency of Kerala and was a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) political party. He represented the Varkala assembly constituency for five consecutive terms in Niyamasabha.
Mukhtar Ansari, was an Indian gangster and a politician,based in the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Mau constituency five times,including twice as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate.
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.
Socialism in India is a political movement founded early in the 20th century,as a part of the broader movement to gain Indian independence from colonial rule. The movement grew quickly in popularity as it espoused the causes of India's farmers and labourers against the zamindars,the princely class and the landed gentry. After independence and until the early 1990s,socialism shaped some economic and social policies of the Indian government,although they mostly followed the principles of dirigisme. After this period,India moved towards a more market-based economy.
Madhubani is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India.
Nagapattinam is a Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu. Its Tamil Nadu Parliamentary Constituency number is 29 of 39. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes. The constituency is noted for being an historically communist stronghold,having elected Communist Party of India parliamentary representative seven times.
Saifuddin Choudhury,was an Indian politician who was a CPI(M) leader and MP from West Bengal state of India. In February 2001 he formed Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).
M. Selvarasu is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament,elected from Tamil Nadu.
Bowbazar Assembly constituency was a Legislative Assembly constituency of Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Hirendranath Mukhopadhyay,also known as Hiren Mukerjee,was an Indian politician,lawyer and academic. He was a member of the Communist Party of India having joined in 1936 when it was still illegal. He was elected to the Lok Sabha the lower house of the Indian Parliament from the Calcutta North East constituency in 1951,1957,1962,1967 and 1971. He suffered an electoral reverse when he lost to Pratap Chandra Chunder in 1977 after the CPI supported Emergency.
Mulayam Singh Yadav was an Indian politician,a socialist figure and founder of the Samajwadi Party. Over the course of his political career spanning more than six decades,he served for three terms as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,and also as the Union Minister of Defence in the Government of India. A long-time parliamentarian,he was a seven-time Member of Parliament representing Mainpuri,Azamgarh,Sambhal and Kannauj constituencies in the Lok Sabha,a ten-time member of the Legislative Assembly,member of the Legislative Council and the Leader of Opposition for several times as well. The veteran politician was a prominent figure of his time in Indian Politics,and was often referred to as Netaji and Dhartiputra by party leaders and workers. In 2023,the socialist leader was posthumously conferred with Padma Vibhushan,India’s second highest civilian award by the Government of India.
Ajay Rai is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress since 2012. He is a five-time MLA from Uttar Pradesh. He is the current Uttar Pradesh Congress chief.
Jitendra Chaudhury is an Indian communist politician who is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and serving as the incumbent MLA from Sabroom. Previously,he had won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Tripura East before conceding defeat against Rebati Tripura of BJP in 2019.
The partial list of political families of Uttar Pradesh state of India and their notable members:
