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 34 years of Left Front rule (where CPIM was the Largest Party) in West Bengal was the longest-serving democratically elected communist-led government in the world. It had been the third largest party of Parliament of India for many decades. The party emerged from a split in the CPI in 1964. As of 2023,CPI(M) is a part of ruling alliances in three states —the LDF in Kerala,Mahagathbandhan in Bihar,and the SPA in Tamil Nadu and CPIM has representation in the legislative assemblies of 8 states.
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.
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.
Mohan Ponnusamy was an Indian politician and a member of the state unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was a member of the 13th Lok Sabha and 14th Lok Sabha,representing the Madurai constituency of Tamil Nadu as a candidate of the CPI(M). He died on 30 October 2009.
T. K. Rangarajan is an Indian communist politician and trade unionist. He is a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),Tamil Nadu State Executive Committee member of CPI(M),All India Vice-president of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions.
Biman Bose is an Indian politician who was once state Secretary of the West Bengal Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was later succeeded by his trusted aide,Surya Kanta Mishra,although he remained a Politburo member of the party. He is also Chairman of the Left Front committee of West Bengal.
K. Varadarajan was a Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from Tamil Nadu of India.
J. Hemachandran was an Indian politician and trade unionist. He was a leading personality of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the state of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu from the Thiruvattar constituency four times,in 1980,1984,1989 and 2001. He served as the leader of the CPI(M) group in the Assembly.
N. Sankaraiah is an Indian Communist Party politician and independence activist.
The Marxist-Leninist Party of India,previously the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag,is a communist party in India. The party is one of the most moderate factions of the wider Naxalite movement.
N. Varadarajan was an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate from Dindigul constituency in 1977 election,and as an Independent candidate in 1980 election.
R. Annadurai is an Indian politician,belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
P. Dillibabu is an Indian politician and was a member of the 14th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Harur constituency,which is reserved for candidates from the Scheduled Castes. He represented the Communist Party of India (Marxist) party. Previously he represented the same constituency as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) member in the 2006 elections.
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.
Surjya Kanta Mishra is an Indian politician,belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He served as Minister of Health and Minister in-charge of Land &Land Reforms,Panchayats &Rural Development in the Left Front governments of West Bengal and was the Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),West Bengal State Committee between 2015 and 2022.
A. K. Padmanabhan is an Indian Marxist politician and former Politburo member,Communist Party of India (Marxist).
The Central Committee is the second-highest body of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The members of the Central Committee are elected at the Congress of the Party,which occurs every three years.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 