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 and one of the national parties of India. The party emerged from a split in the CPI on 07.11.1964. As of 2022,CPI(M) is a part of ruling alliances in three states —the LDF in Kerala,Mahagathbandhan in Bihar,and the SPA in Tamil Nadu. CPIM has representation in the legislative assemblies of 8 states.The Party is currently the main opposition in Tripura along with Congress (SDF Alliance).
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.
The All India Forward Bloc is a left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939,led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India. It has its main stronghold in West Bengal. The party's current Secretary-General is [G. Devarajan]. Veteran Indian politicians Sarat Chandra Bose and Chitta Basu had been the stalwarts of the party in independent India.
R. Umanath(21 December 1921 - 21 May 2014) was a communist politician from Tamil Nadu,India,and a Politburo member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) from 1998. He was born in 1921 in Kasaragod,Kerala and moved to Madras during his student days.
Paramasiva Subbarayan was an Indian politician,freedom fighter and diplomat and was the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency,India's ambassador to Indonesia and Union Minister of Transport and Communications in Jawaharlal Nehru's government. He was the father of General P. P. Kumaramangalam who served as India's Chief of Army staff and politician Mohan Kumaramangalam. He was also the grandfather of INC and BJP politician and Union Minister Rangarajan Kumaramangalam.
Basudeb Acharia is an Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) political party. His ancestors were originally from Present-day Tamil Nadu,who settled in Bengal in 16th Century. He considers himself to be a Bengali.
U. Vasuki is an Indian politician and trade unionist from Tamil Nadu. As of 2017,she is a central committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the National Vice President of the All India Democratic Women's Association.
P. Ramamurti was an Indian politician and a politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
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. Dalit agricultural workers form a large part of the electorate in the constituency. The constituency is noted for being an historically communist stronghold,having elected Communist Party of India parliamentary representative seven times.
K. Ramani was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1969,four times to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and was the Tamil Nadu State Committee president of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions.
K. Varadarajan was a Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from Tamil Nadu of India.
David Pandian was an Indian Tamil politician who served as Member of Parliament elected from Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Lok Sabha as an Indian National Congress–United Communist Party of India (UCPI) candidate from North Chennai constituency in 1989 and 1991 elections. He was the Tamil Nadu State Secretary of the Communist Party of India for three consecutive terms from 2005 to 2015,when he was succeeded by R. Mutharasan.
S. Venkatesan also known as Su. Venkatesan is a Tamil writer from Tamil Nadu,India and Tamil Nadu State Committee member of CPI(M). Venkatesan is a state committee member of the Party and a whole-timer of the Party. He is the state president of Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association.
Doraisamy Raja is an Indian politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) since July 2019. He was former member of Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu. He was the national secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) from 1994 to 2019.
Samar Mukherjee was an Indian Communist leader. who served as member of the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India for the Howrah constituency for three consecutive term,and as a member of the Rajya Sabha. He was a member of the Polit Bureau,member of the Central Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) and he was also the General Secretary CITU.
K. Gopal is an Indian doctor and politician. He obtained a M.B.B.S degree from Thanjavur Medical College. He is married to Sangamithra,Daughter of late Indian National Congress veteran MLA V.Vedaiyan. Gopal was a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Nannilam 1991 to 1996. In 2014 he was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Nagapattinam as an Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in the 2014 election. He won the seat with 46.06% and was elected Member of Parliament for Nagapattinam for 16th Lok Sabha.
Sithamalli Govindan Murugaiyan,usually called S.G. Murugaiyan,was a communist politician in Tamil Nadu,India. S.G. Murugaiyan was a prominent leader of struggles of Dalits in Mannargudi taluk,and became the first Dalit in the state to be elected as revenue block chairman. In 1977 he was elected Member of Parliament. Two years later he was assassinated.
In 1964 a major split occurred in the Communist Party of India. The split was the culmination of decades of tensions and factional infighting. When India became independent in 1947,differences arose of how to adapt to the new situation. As relations between the Nehru government and the Soviet Union improved,a faction that sought cooperation with the dominant Indian National Congress emerged within CPI. This tendency was led by S.A. Dange,whose role in the party hierarchy became increasingly controversial. When the Sino-Indian War broke out in 1962 Dange's opponents within CPI were jailed,but when they were released they sought to challenge his leadership. In 1964 the party was finally divided into two,with the left faction forming the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The split had a lot of regional variations. It also impacted other organizations,such as trade union and peasant movements. The split has been studied extensively by scholars,who have sought to analyze the various domestic and international factors involved.
