Communist Party of India (Marxist)

The Communist Party of India (Marxist), abbreviated as CPI(M), emerged out of a split from the Communist Party of India in 1964. The party was founded with an objective of achieving socialism. The party also aim at implementing reservations for the disabled in public sector employment, poverty alleviation programmes and education for the disabled. As of 2008, CPI(M) is heading three state governments which are Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura.

On the last day of the party’s 18th congress, the central committee elected Prakash Karat as the new general secretary of CPI(M). The other active members in the party are West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharyajee, V.S. Achuthanandan-current Chief Minister of Kerala, Jyoti Basu, Manik Sarkar and Ramachandran Pillai. Another important leader and public face of CPI (M) is Sitaram Yechury who is head of the International Department and Editor of CPI (M)s central weekly Peoples’ Democracy.

Contesting on an average 15 percent of the total seats in the last few elections, the CPI(M) has been getting around 6 percent of the votes. To the Lok Sabha elections in 2004, the party won 44 seats adding 11 more to its earlier tally of 33 in the 1999 elections. The party leaders have promised to implement the Disabilities Act along with other things like buildings, transport, information, public places and other avenues to be fully accessible and barrier free to people with disabilities.

List of CPIM for Lok Sabha Election 2009
S.No	State Name	Constituency Name	Candidate Name
1	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	Tapan Bepari
2	Assam	Silchar	Deepak Bhattacharya
3	Assam	Tezpur	Jiten Sundi
4	Assam	Barpeta	Durge Deka
5	Bihar	Nawada	Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
6	Bihar	Paschim champaran	Ramashray Singh
7	Bihar	Supaul	Balram Singh Yadav
8	Bihar	Ujiarpur	Ramdev Verma
9	Bihar	Bhagalpur	Subodh Roy
10	Chhattisgarh	Surguja	Bal Singh
11	Gujarat	Dahod	Singhji Katara
12	Gujarat	Rajkot	Sudhirbhai Joshi
13	Haryana	Sirsa	Ram Kumar
14	Himachal Pradesh	Mandi	Onkar Shad
15	Jharkhand	Rajmahal	Jyotin Soren
16	Jharkhand	Ranchi	Rajendra Singh Munda
17	Karnataka	Dakshina Kannada	B Madhava
18	Kerala	Kottayam	Suresh Kurup
19	Kerala	Vadakara	P. Satheedevi
20	Kerala	Kozhikode	Adv. Muhammad Riyaz
21	Kerala	Alappuzha	Dr. K.s. Manoj
22	Kerala	Pathanamthitta	Ananthagopan
23	Kerala	Kollam	P. Rajendran
24	Kerala	Attingal	A. Sampath
25	Kerala	Palakkad	M B Rajesh
26	Kerala	Chalakudy	U P Joseph
27	Kerala	Kannur	K K Ragesh
28	Kerala	Malappuram	T K Hamza
29	Kerala	Alathur	P k Biju
30	Kerala	Kasaragod	P Karunakaran
31	Lakshadweep	Lakshadweep	Lookmanul Hakkim M K
32	Madhya Pradesh	Morena	J K Pipal
33	Maharashtra	Palghar	Lahanu Shidva Kom
34	Maharashtra	Dindori	Jiva Pandu Gavit
35	Punjab	Anandpur Sahib	Mahan Singh Rori
36	Rajasthan	Sikar	Amra Ram
37	Rajasthan	Bhilwara	Pawan Duggal
38	Rajasthan	Ganganagar	Shpatram Meghwal
39	Tripura	Tripura West	Khagen Das
40	Tripura	Tripura East	Bajuban Riyan
41	Uttarakhand	Tehri Garhwal	Bachi Ram Kaunswal
42	Uttar Pradesh	Azamgarh	Arun Kumar Singh
43	Uttar Pradesh	Firozabad	Rajjo Devi
44	West Bengal	Sreerampur	Santashree Chatterjee
45	West Bengal	Arambag	Sakti Mohan Malik
46	West Bengal	Tamluk	Lakshman Seth
47	West Bengal	Jhargram	Dr. Pulin Behari Baskey
48	West Bengal	Bardhaman Purba	Dr. Anup Saha
49	West Bengal	Budhaman - Durgapur	Saidul Haque
50	West Bengal	Bolpur	Dr. Ramchanda Dom
51	West Bengal	Birbhum	Braja Mukherjee
52	West Bengal	Hooghly	Rupchand Pal
53	West Bengal	Barrackpur	Tarit Baran Topdar
54	West Bengal	Diamond Harbour	Samik Lahiri
55	West Bengal	Bankura	Basudeb Acharya
56	West Bengal	Uluberia	Hannan Mollah
57	West Bengal	Darjeeling	Jibesh Sarkar
58	West Bengal	Jalpaiguri	Mahendra Roy
59	West Bengal	Raiganj	Bireswar Lahiri
60	West Bengal	Maldaha Uttar	Sailen Sarkar
61	West Bengal	Maldaha Dakshin	Dr. Abdur Rezzak
62	West Bengal	Jangipur	Mriganka Bhattacharya
63	West Bengal	Murshidabad	Anisur Rahaman
64	West Bengal	Ranaghat	Dr. Basudeb Barman
65	West Bengal	Bangaon	Asim Bala
66	West Bengal	Mathurapur	Animesh Naskar
67	West Bengal	Jadavpur	Dr. Sujan Chakraborty
68	West Bengal	Kolkata Dakshin	Rabin Deb
69	West Bengal	Kolkata Utttar	Md. Salim
70	West Bengal	Howrah	Swadesh Chakraborty

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Communist Party of India

The Communist Party of India was founded in December1925 to be a part of the nations freedom struggle and also to envision a socialist India. The fusion of militant anti-imperialist patriotism and internationalism, of the struggle for national liberation and the class struggle for socialism led to the party's creation.

 Social equality for women, adult franchise, nationalization of private-owned enterprise have been some of the party's crucial issues. The CPI has been forthright about backing issues like nations wealth in the nations hands (nationalization), land to the tiller (land reforms), social justice for the untouchables, democratic rights of organisations, right to protest through demonstrations and strikes, etc.

 The main slogan of the party, 'People's Democracy' was substituted by 'National Democracy' in 1951.  In 1957, CPI emerged as the strongest opposition party in the assembly elections in Kerala and won. This was the first time in independent Indian history that an opposition party won control over an Indian  state. But soon in 1964, some ideological differences within the party brought about a major split, leading to the creation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which CPI as the smaller of the Communist entities in India. The CPI was also the government in power in Kerala between 1970-77, with Congress support,  and Achutha Menonwas elected as the chief minister. CPI has also been a part of the Left Frront government in West Bengal, Tripura and intermittently in Kerala in the last 20 years. In Tamil Nadu it is part of the Progressive Democratic Alliance.

CPI also has some incorporated organizations, some of which were created to look after employee welfare at the lower levels of society.

• All India Trade Union Congress
• All India Youth Federation
• All India Students Federation
• National Federation of Indian Women
• All India Kisan Sabha (peasants organization)
• Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union (agricultural workers)
• All India State Government Employees Federation (State government employees)

Latest Happening in the Party
CPI is recognized as a 'National Party' by the Election Commission of India. Today, the Communist Party of India is known to be the only National political party from India which has contested in all general elections with the same electoral symbol.

On national level, CPI supports the Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government, but without taking part in it. The party is part of the coalition of leftist and communist parties, also known as the Left-Front in national media. The part has been against India's recent nuclear treaty with the United States and even withdrew support to the Manmohan Singh government over the issue.

AB Bardhan is the present general secretary of CPI. The party has fraternal relations with other Communist-aligned parties like CPI(M), Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and Forward Bloc (FB).

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Samata Party

Samata Party was formed in 1994 when a faction lead by George Fernandes and Nitish Kumar broke away from Janta Dal. The reason was that the party ideology had shifted to castism .

George Fernades rose to fame during 1977- 79 for his opposition to multinational companies. He was the key figure behind packing off Coca cola from India then. He campaigned against BJP calling it a communal party.

In 1996 Samata Party came into alliance with BJP and won on eight seats, six in Bihar and one each in Uttar Pradesh and Orissa. Before this it was largely based in Bihar only. In 1998 elections again in alliance with BJP it won twelve seats, ten from Bihar and two from Uttar Pradesh.

Since then the two leaders George Fernandes and Nitish Kumar were Union Ministers in the NDA government; George Fernandes the Defence Minister and Nitish Kumar the Railway Minister.

More recently with yet another split in Janta Dal, SP has been able to rope in Janta Dal Led by Sharad Yadav, Lok Shakti led by Ramakrishna Hegde and Samata Party on a single platform for the NDA.

The main agendas for the elections are
«» Oppose and end communalism
«» Eradicate corruption at all levels
«» increased security of the nation

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