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This page contains a list of political parties in India that are aligned with the communist ideology.

Most Communist Parties in India trace their origin back to-

(i) Communist Party of India,

(ii) Communist Party of India (Marxist),

(iii) Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)

## Communist parties registered with the Election Commission of India

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### Communist Parties with National Party Status

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Election Symbol  | Name  | Founded  | Ideology  | Leader | Seats in
Lok Sabha | Seats in
Rajya Sabha | Seats in State
Assemblies | Seats in State
Councils

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| Communist Party of India (Marxist)[1][2] | 7 November 1964
(59 years ago) (1964-11-07)[3][4][5] | Marxism–Leninism | Prakash Karat

(interim)[6]

4 / 543

5 / 245

82 / 4,036

0 / 426

### Communist parties with state party status

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Election Symbol  | Name  | Founded  | Ideology  | Leader | Recognised In  | Seats in
Lok Sabha | Seats in
Rajya Sabha | Seats in State
Assemblies | Seats in State
Councils

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| Communist Party of India | 26 December 1925 (98 years ago) (1925-12-26) | Marxism–Leninism | D. Raja | Kerala,
Manipur,
Tamil Nadu |

2 / 543

3 / 245

22 / 4,036

1 / 426

| Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation[7] | 28 July 1974 (50 years ago) (1974-07-28)[8][9][10] | Marxism–Leninism

Mao Zedong Thought

| Dipankar Bhattacharya[11][12][13] | Bihar[14] |

2 / 543

0 / 245

13 / 4,036

0 / 426

## Minor Communist parties

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NAME  | IDEOLOGY  | LEADER  | BASE REGION

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Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Star[15] | Marxism–Leninism–Maoism[15] | K. N. Ramachandran[16] |
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Class Struggle[17] | Marxism–Leninism[17] | Visawam
Revolutionary Marxist Party of India[18] | Marxism[18] | KK RAMA[18] | KERALA[18]
Communist Marxist Party[19] | Marxism, Rosa Luxemburg THOUGHT[19] | C. P. John[19] | KERALA [19]
Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy[20] | Communism[20] | A. V. Thamarakshan [20] | KERALA [20]
All India Forward Bloc[21] | Left-wing nationalism[21] | G. Devarajan[21] |
Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)[22] | Marxism, Revolutionary socialism[22] | Manoj Bhattacharya[22] |
Revolutionary Socialist Party (Leninist)[23] | Marxism–Leninism, Socialism[23] | Kovoor Kunjumon[23] | KERALA[23]
Marxist-Leninist Party of India (Red Flag)[24] | Communism[24] | M.S. Jayakumar[24] |
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)[25] | Communism, Stalinism[25] | [25] Provash Ghosh  |

## Trotskyist Communist parties

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* New Socialist Alternative (India)
* Radical Socialist (India)
* Bolshevik International Marxist Tendency India
* Workers' Socialist Party (India)

### Trotskyist leaning Communist Parties

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* Revolutionary Communist Party of India

## Maoist parties that reject Parliamentarism and Electoralism

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* Communist Party of India (Maoist)

## See also

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* India portal
* Communism portal
* Politics portal

* Socialism in India
* Communism in India
* Communism in Kerala
* Naxalite
* List of political parties in India
* Politics of India
* List of Naxalite and Maoist groups in India

## References

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12. ^ "Organisation". cpiml.org.
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20. ^ a b c d ഡെസ്ക്, വെബ് (2021-09-14). "പ്രഫ. എ.വി. താമരാക്ഷന്‍ ജെ.എസ്.എസ് സംസ്ഥാന പ്രസിഡൻറ് | Madhyamam". www.madhyamam.com (in Malayalam). Retrieved 2024-05-03.
21. ^ a b c Rund, Arild Engelsen (May 1994). "Land and Power: The Marxist Conquest of Rural Bengal". Modern Asian Studies. 28 (2): 357–380. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00012440. ISSN 1469-8099.
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23. ^ a b c d "Kerala: Four new parties find berths in LDF". The Times of India. 2018-12-27. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
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