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CPIM

Communist Party of India (Marxist)
भारतीय कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी (मार्क्सवादी)
Abbreviation CPI(M)
Secretary-General Sitaram Yechury
Lok Sabha leader P. Karunakaran
Rajya Sabha leader Sitaram Yechury
Founded 7 November 1964; 52 years ago (1964-11-07)
Split from Communist Party of India
Headquarters Bhai Vir Singh Marg, New Delhi,
India-110 001
Newspaper People's Democracy
Ganashakti
Deshabhimani
Student wing Students' Federation of India
Youth wing Democratic Youth Federation of India
Women's wing All India Democratic Women's Association
Labour wing Centre of Indian Trade Unions
Peasant's wing All India Kisan Sabha (Ashoka Road)
Membership 53,180,437 (2014)
Ideology Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Political position Far-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)
Left Democratic Manch, Assam
National convener Sitaram Yechury
Seats in Lok Sabha
9 / 545
Seats in Rajya Sabha
8 / 245
Election symbol
Indian Election Symbol Hammer Sickle and Star.png
Website
www.cpim.org
1967 CPI(M) election results
(seats won / seats contested / seats total / votes / % of total vote)
Lok Sabha: 19 / 59 / 520 / 6246522 / 4.28%
Elections to State Legislative Assemblies:
Andhra Pradesh 9 / 83 / 287 / 1053855 / 7.61%
Assam 0 / 14 / 126 / 61165 / 1.97%
Bihar 4 / 32 / 318 / 173656 / 1.28%
Haryana 0 / 8 / 81 / 16379 / 0.54%
Himachal Pradesh 0 / 6 / 60 / 3019 / 0.39%
Kerala 52 / 59 / 133 / 1476456 / 23.51%
Madhya Pradesh 0 / 9 / 296 / 20728 / 0.23%
Maharashtra 1 / 11 / 270 / 145083 / 1.08%
Manipur 0 / 5 / 30 / 2093 / 0.67%
Mysore 1 / 10 / 216 / 82531 / 1.10%
Orissa 1 / 10 / 140 / 46597 / 1.16%
Punjab 3 / 13 / 104 / 138857 / 3.26%
Rajasthan 0 / 22 / 184 / 79826 / 1.18%
Tamil Nadu 11 / 22 / 234 / 623114 / 4.07%
Tripura 2 / 16 / 30 / 93739 / 21.61%
Uttar Pradesh 1 / 57 / 425 / 272565 / 1.27%
West Bengal 43 / 135 / 280 / 2293026 / 18.11%

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated CPI(M) or CPM) is a communist party in India. The party emerged from a split from the Communist Party of India in 1964. The CPI(M) was formed at the Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of India held in Calcutta from 31 October to 7 November 1964. The strength of CPI(M) is concentrated in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2016, CPI(M) is leading the state governments in Tripura and Kerala. It also leads the West Bengal Left Front. As of 2014, CPI(M) claimed to have 10,48,678 members. The highest body of the party is the Politburo.

CPI(M) emerged from a division within the Communist Party of India (CPI). The undivided CPI had experienced a period of upsurge during the years following the Second World War. The CPI led armed rebellions in Telangana, Tripura, and Kerala. However, it soon abandoned the strategy of armed revolution in favour of working within the parliamentary framework. In 1950 B. T. Ranadive, the CPI general secretary and a prominent representative of the radical sector inside the party, was demoted on grounds of left-adventurism.

Under the government of the Indian National Congress party of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India developed close relations and a strategic partnership with the Soviet Union. The Soviet government consequently wished that the Indian communists moderate their criticism towards the Indian state and assume a supportive role towards the Congress governments. However, large sections of the CPI claimed that India remained a semi-feudal country, and that class struggle could not be put on the back-burner for the sake of guarding the interests of Soviet trade and foreign policy. Moreover, the Indian National Congress appeared to be generally hostile towards political competition. In 1959 the central government intervened to impose President's Rule in Kerala, toppling the E.M.S. Namboodiripad cabinet (the sole non-Congress state government in the country).


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