Bolshevik Party of India
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Bolshevik Party of India
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| Founder | N. Dutta Mazumder |
| Founded | 1939 |
| Headquarters | Nagpur |
| Ideology | Marxism–Leninism |
| Political position | Left-Wing |
| Religion | Secular |
| National affiliation | Left Front |
The Bolshevik Party of India (abbreviated BPI, Bengali: ভারতীয় বলশেভিক পার্টি, Hindi: बोल्शेविक पार्टी ऑफ इंडिया) is a communist political party in India. The party was founded in 1939. The party had a certain role in the trade union movement in West Bengal and was briefly represented in the state government in 1969. In later years the party has played a negligible role in Indian politics.
BPI traces its roots to the Bengal Labour Party, founded in 1933 and led by Niharendu Dutt Mazumdar. Prominent leaders of the Bengal Labour Party included Sisir Roy, Sudha Roy, Bishwanath Dubey, Kamal Sarkar, Nandalal Bose and Promode Sen.
As of 1930s the Bengal Labour Party led various trade unions, such as
The leaders of the Bengal Labour Party joined the Communist Party of India in the mid-1930s, but maintained the Labour Party as an open organisation. However, they disagreed with the role of CPI around the Tripuri session of the Indian National Congress and criticised the CPI for not siding with the All India Forward Bloc when Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose broke with the Congress. These Bengal Labour Party leaders, such as N. Dutt Mazumdar, Sisir Roy (founding general secretary of the Calcutta Port Dock Workers Union), Biswanath Dubey and Ajit Roy founded BPI in 1939. The Bolshevik Party of India was an underground Marxist-Leninist organisation, maintaining the Labour Party as its front organisation. In the discourse of the nascent BPI, CPI had reduced the Marxist-Leninist theory of united front to a "base theory of class-collaboration with the reactionary Gandhian leadership of the bourgeois Congress". BPI called on CPI cadres to revolt against their party leadership. N. Dutta Mazumdar was the founding general secretary of BPI.
When the Second World War broke out, BPI characterised the war as 'imperialist' and called for a revolutionary mass movement against British rule in India. However, with the onset of war between Germany and the Soviet Union the party did a U-turn and aligned with the CPI position and called for anti-fascist unity and support to the British war effort.
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