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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|A political party in the Indian state of West Bengal.}}<br />
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{{Infobox political party<br />
| name = Workers Party of India<br />
| colorcode = {{party color|Workers Party of India}}<br />
| foundation = 1943<br />
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| country = India<br />
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'''Workers Party of India''' is a [[political party]] in the [[India]]n state of [[West Bengal]]. WPI has its origin in the '''Democratic Vanguard in India'''. DV was formed in 1943 when a group led by Jiban Lal Chattopadhyay broke away from the [[Radical Democratic Party (India)|Radical Democratic Party]] of [[Manabendra Nath Roy]]. DV were dissatisfied with the development of RDP into a non-Marxist outfit. Jiban Lal Chattopadhyay had been elected secretary of the [[Bengal]] [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1930.<br />
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On June 12, 1960 DV became the Workers Party of India.<ref name=a>Gupta, P.K.S. ''[https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/205295/ Political parties in West Bengal]''. p. 182, 201</ref> The party adopted a [[hammer and sickle]] in a five-pointed star as its symbol.<ref name=a/> The party held its Second All India Conference in [[Calcutta]] in 1965, its Third All India Conference in 1970 and the Fourth All India General Conference in 1971.<ref name=b>Gupta, P.K.S. ''[https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/205295/12/12_bibliography.pdf Political parties in West Bengal]''</ref> The 8th All India Conference was held in 1976.<ref name="Basu2003">{{cite book|author=Asish Krishna Basu|title=Marxism in an Indian State: An Analytical Study of West Bengal Leftism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TabaAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Ratna Prakashan|isbn=978-81-85709-73-4|page=283}}</ref><br />
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WPI was part of the [[United Left Front (1967)|United Left Front]] that contested the [[1967 West Bengal state assembly election]].<ref name="Paul2014">{{cite book|author=Bappaditya Paul|title=The First Naxal: An Authorised Biography of Kanu Sanyal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=spc3BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA93|date=27 August 2014|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-93-5150-109-1|page=93}}</ref><ref name="Kundu2016">{{cite book|author=Manujendra Kundu|title=So Near, Yet So Far: Badal Sircar’s Third Theatre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-1TDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT188|date=12 May 2016|publisher=OUP India|isbn=978-0-19-908958-1|page=188}}</ref> WPI was part of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]-led United Front, which governed [[West Bengal]] 1967–1971. [[Jyotibhushan Bhattacharya]], a leader of the Workers Party, was the Education Minister and Information Minister in the two United Front governments in 1967 and 1969 in West Bengal. He was the General Secretary of the Party since 1970. Jiban Lal Chattopadhyay died in 1970. In 1976 WPI split into two. One faction, led by Monidranarayan Basu, retained the name WPI. The other faction led by Bhattacharya called itself [[Communist Workers Party (India)|Communist Workers Party]]. Subsequently the Communist Workers Party of India changed its name to Workers Party. Basu died in a car accident, and Salien Pal took over the leadership.<br />
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In the [[1980 Indian general election]] WPI fielded Mohammed Elias Razi in the [[Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency)|Raiganj constituency]]. He obtained 13,554 votes (2.89%).<ref name="Sircar1999">{{cite book|author=Jawhar Sircar|title=Parliamentary Elections in West Bengal, 1952-1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uy2OAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Government of West Bengal|page=114}}</ref><br />
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WPI publishes ''Ganabiplab'' (Popular Revolution) in [[Bengali language|Bengali]]. As of the early 1980s, ''Ganabiplab'' was printed in 1,500 copies and its editor was Hemendra Behari Mukherjee. Its publication was somewhat irregular at the time.<ref name="NewspapersSanyal1983">{{cite book|author1=West Bengal (India). Fact Finding Committee on Small & Medium Newspapers|author2=Sasanka Sekhar Sanyal|title=Report of the Fact Finding Committee on Small & Medium Newspapers, 1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=arlFAQAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Information & Cultural Affairs Department, Government of West Bengal|page=50}}</ref><br />
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WPI considers the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] as [[Marxist revisionism|revisionist]]. Of late, WPI has joined the Left Front in 2011. Its secretary is Manik Dutta.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}<br />
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