Communist Party of India
भारतीय कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी |
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Abbreviation | CPI |
Secretary-General | S. Sudhakar Reddy |
Lok Sabha leader | C. N. Jayadevan |
Rajya Sabha leader | D. Raja |
Founded | 26 December 1925 |
Headquarters | Indrajit Gupta Marg, New Delhi, India-110002 |
Newspaper | |
Student wing | All India Students Federation |
Youth wing | All India Youth Federation |
Women's wing | National Federation of Indian Women |
Labour wing | All India Trade Union Congress and Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union |
Peasant's wing | All India Kisan Sabha (Ajoy Bhavan) |
Ideology |
Communism Marxism-Leninism |
Political position | Extreme Left |
International affiliation | International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties |
Colours | Red |
ECI Status | National Party |
Alliance | Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front (Tripura), Left Democratic Front (Kerala) |
National convener | S. Sudhakar Reddy |
Seats in Lok Sabha |
1 / 545
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Seats in Rajya Sabha |
1 / 245
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Election symbol | |
Website | |
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The Communist Party of India (CPI) (Bhāratīya Kamyunisṭ Pārṭī) is a communist party in India. In the Indian Communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Communist Party of India was founded. But the date maintained as the foundation day by the CPI is 26 December 1925. However, the Communist Party of India (Maoist), which separated from the CPI, has a different version that it was founded in 1920.
The Communist Party of India has officially stated that it was formed on 25 December 1925 at the first Party Conference in Kanpur. But as per the version of CPI(M), the Communist Party of India was founded in Tashkent, Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on 17 October 1920, soon after the Second Congress of the Communist International. The founding members of the party were M.N. Roy, Evelyn Trent Roy (Roy's wife), Abani Mukherji, Rosa Fitingof (Abani's wife), Mohammad Ali (Ahmed Hasan), Mohammad Shafiq Siddiqui, Rafiq Ahmed of Bhopal and M.P.B.T. Aacharya, and Sultan Ahmed Khan Tarin of North-West Frontier Province. The CPI says that there were many communist groups formed by Indians with the help of foreigners in different parts of the world and the Tashkent group was only one of. contacts with Anushilan and Jugantar groups in Bengal. Small communist groups were formed in Bengal (led by Muzaffar Ahmed), Bombay (led by S.A. Dange), Madras (led by Singaravelu Chettiar), United Provinces (led by Shaukat Usmani) and Punjab and Sindh (led by Ghulam Hussain). However, only Usmani became a CPI party member.