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{{cite web|url=https://thewire.in/rights/manipur-arrests-cpi-secretary-caa-protests |title=Manipur: CPI State Secretary, Blogger Arrested over CAA Protests|work=[[The Wire (India)|The Wire]] |access-date=24 December 2019}}

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<span lang="ml" dir="ltr">The</span> '''Communist Party of India''' ('''CPI''') is the oldest [[communist party]] in [[India]] and one of the eight [[List of political parties in India#National parties|national parties]] in the country.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/category/267-recognized-national-parties/|title=Recognized National Parties|website=Election Commission of India}}</ref> The CPI was founded in [[Kanpur]] on 26 December 1925.<ref name="auto2"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article9916.html|title=Foundation of the Communist Party of India (CPI) in 1925: product of (...) - Mainstream|website=www.mainstreamweekly.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/article30165649.ece|title=Origins of Indian communism|first=A. G.|last=NOORANI|website=Frontline}}</ref>

The Communist Party of India was formed on 26 December 1925 at the [[Foundation Conference of Communist Party of India|first Party Conference]] in [[Kanpur]], which was then known as ''Cawnpore''. [[Sachchidanand Vishnu Ghate|S.V. Ghate]] was the first General Secretary of CPI. There were many communist groups formed by Indians with the help of foreigners in different parts of the world, Tashkent group of Contacts were made with [[Anushilan]] and [[Jugantar]] the groups in [[Bengal]], and small communist groups were formed in [[Bombay Presidency|Bombay]] (led by [[S.A. Dange]]), [[Madras Presidency|Madras]] (led by [[Malayapuram Singaravelu Chettiar|Singaravelu Chettiar]]), [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]] (led by [[Shaukat Usmani]]), [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[Sindh]] (led by [[Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah|Ghulam Hussain]]) and [[Bengal]] (led by [[Muzaffar Ahmed (politician)|Muzaffar Ahmed]]).

During the 1920s and the early 1930s the party was badly organised, and in practice there were several communist groups working with limited national co-ordination. The British colonial authorities had banned all communist activity, which made the task of building a united party very difficult. Between 1921 and 1924 there were three conspiracy trials against the communist movement; First [[Peshawar Conspiracy Case]], [[Meerut Conspiracy Case]] and the [[S.A. Dange#Kanpur Bolshevik conspiracy case|Kanpur Bolshevik Conspiracy Case]]. In the first three cases, [[Russians|Russian]]-trained muhajir communists were put on trial. However, the Cawnpore trial had more political impact. On 17 March 1924, [[Shripad Amrit Dange]], [[M.N. Roy]], Muzaffar Ahmed, Nalini Gupta, Shaukat Usmani, [[Malayapuram Singaravelu|Singaravelu Chettiar]], Ghulam Hussain and R.C. Sharma were charged, in Cawnpore (now spelt Kanpur) Bolshevik Conspiracy case. The specific pip charge was that they as communists were seeking "to deprive the King Emperor of his sovereignty of British India, by complete separation of India from Britain by a violent revolution." Pages of newspapers daily splashed sensational communist plans and people for the first time learned, on such a large scale, about communism and its doctrines and the aims of the Communist International in India.<ref name="Ralhan, O.P.">Ralhan, O.P. (ed.) ''Encyclopedia of Political Parties'' New Delhi: Anmol Publications p. 336, Rao. p. 89-91.</ref>

Singaravelu Chettiar was released on account of illness. M.N. Roy was in [[Germany]] and R.C. Sharma in French [[Puducherry (union territory)|Pondichéry]], and therefore could not be arrested. Ghulam Hussain confessed that he had received money from the Russians in [[Kabul]] and was pardoned. Muzaffar Ahmed, Nalini Gupta, Shaukat Usmani and Dange were sentenced for various terms of imprisonment. This case was responsible for actively introducing communism to a larger Indian audience.<ref name="Ralhan, O.P."/> Dange was released from prison in 1927. Rahul Dev Pal was a prominent communist leader

On 25 December 1925 a communist conference was organised in Kanpur.<ref>{{cite web|title=Historical Moments in Kanpur|url=http://genieforcity.com/kanpur/history-kanpur.html|access-date=14 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821203425/http://genieforcity.com/kanpur/history-kanpur.html#|archive-date=21 August 2016|url-status = live}}</ref> Colonial authorities estimated that 500 persons took part in the conference. The conference was convened by a man called [[Satya Bhakta]]. At the conference Satyabhakta argued for a '[[National communism]]' and against subordination under Comintern. Being outvoted by the other delegates, Satyabhakta left the conference venue in protest.  The conference adopted the name 'Communist Party of India'. Groups such as [[Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan]] (LKPH) dissolved into the CPI.<ref>M.V. S. Koteswara Rao. ''Communist Parties and United Front – Experience in Kerala and West Bengal''. [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]: Prajasakti Book House, 2003. p. 92-93</ref> The émigré CPI, which probably had little organic character anyway, was effectively substituted by the organisation now operating inside India.

The sixth congress of the Communist International met in 1928. In 1927 the [[Kuomintang]] had turned on the Chinese communists, which led to a review of the policy on forming alliances with the national bourgeoisie in the colonial countries. The Colonial theses of the 6th Comintern congress called upon the Indian communists to combat the 'national-reformist leaders' and to 'unmask the national reformism of the [[Indian National Congress]] and oppose all phrases of the Swarajists, Gandhists, etc. about passive resistance'.<ref name="saha">Saha, Murari Mohan (ed.), ''Documents of the Revolutionary Socialist Party: Volume One 1938–1947''. Agartala: Lokayata Chetana Bikash Society, 2001. p. 21-25</ref> The congress did however differentiate between the character of the Chinese Kuomintang and the Indian [[Swaraj Party|Swarajist Party]], considering the latter as neither a reliable ally nor a direct enemy. The congress called on the Indian communists to utilise the contradictions between the national bourgeoisie and the British imperialists.<ref>M.V. S. Koteswara Rao. ''Communist Parties and United Front – Experience in Kerala and West Bengal''. [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]: Prajasakti Book House, 2003. p. 47-48</ref> The congress also denounced the WPP. The Tenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, 3 July 1929{{spaced ndash}}19 July 1929, directed the Indian communists to break with WPP. When the communists deserted it, the WPP fell apart.<ref>M.V. S. Koteswara Rao. ''Communist Parties and United Front – Experience in Kerala and West Bengal''. [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]: Prajasakti Book House, 2003. p. 97-98, 111–112</ref>

The [[League Against Gandhism]], initially known as the Gandhi Boycott Committee, was a political organisation in [[Calcutta]], founded by the underground Communist Party of India and others to launch militant [[Anti-imperialism|anti-Imperialist]] activities. The group took the name ‘League Against Gandhism’ in 1934.<ref>Roy Subodh, Communism in India – Unpublished Documents 1925-1934. [[Calcutta]]: National Book Agency, 1998. p. 338-339, 359-360</ref>

In July 1937, clandestine meeting held at [[Kozhikode|Calicut]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/article30224225.ece|title=A man and a movement|first=R. KRISHNAKUMAR in|last=Thiruvananthapuram|website=Frontline}}</ref> Five persons were present at the meeting, [[P. Krishna Pillai]], [[K. Damodaran]], [[E.M.S. Namboodiripad]], [[N. C. Sekhar]] and [[S.V. Ghate]].

The first four were members of the CSP in Kerala. The CPI in [[Kerala]] was formed on 31 December 1939 with the Pinarayi Conference.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cpimkerala.org/eng/founders-98.php?n=1|title=Founders|website=CPIM Kerala}}</ref>  

On the occasion of the 1940 Ramgarh Congress Conference CPI released a declaration called ''Proletarian Path'', which sought to utilise the weakened state of the British Empire in the time of war and gave a call for [[general strike]], no-tax, no-rent policies and mobilising for an armed revolutionary uprising. The National Executive of the CSP assembled at [[Ramgarh Cantonment|Ramgarh]] took a decision that all communists were expelled from CSP.<ref>Ralhan, O.P. (ed.). ''Encyclopedia of Political Parties – India – Pakistan – Bangladesh – National -Regional – Local. Vol. 24. Socialist Movement in India''. New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 1997. p. 82</ref>

 

[[File:A Communist Party camp in Karol Bagh, Delhi, 1952.jpg|thumb|CPI election campaign in [[Karol Bagh]], [[Delhi]], for the [[1952 Indian general election]].

[[File:Kerala_Council_of_Ministers_1957_EMS.jpg|thumb|First Council of Ministers, First CPI Ministry in Kerala]].]]

During the period around and directly following Independence in 1947, the internal situation in the party was chaotic. The party shifted rapidly between left-wing and right-wing positions. In February 1948, at the [[Second Party Congress of the Communist Party of India|2nd Party Congress]] in Calcutta, [[B. T. Ranadive]] (BTR) was elected General Secretary of the party.<ref>Chandra, Bipan & others (2000). ''India after Independence 1947–2000'', New Delhi:Penguin, {{ISBN|0-14-027825-7}}, p.204</ref> The conference adopted the 'Programme of Democratic Revolution'. This programme included the first mention of struggle against [[caste]] injustice in a CPI document.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ceri-sciencespo.com/archive/april01/artcj.pdf|title=Page d'accueil - Sciences Po CERI|access-date=12 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227153210/http://www.ceri-sciencespo.com/archive/april01/artcj.pdf#|archive-date=27 February 2008|url-status = live}}</ref>

In [[Manipur]], the party became a force to reckon with through the agrarian struggles led by [[Hijam Irabot|Jananeta Irawat Singh]]. Singh had joined CPI in 1946.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070206/asp/northeast/story_7350994.asp|title=The Telegraph - Calcutta : Northeast|access-date=6 April 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014070444/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070206/asp/northeast/story_7350994.asp#|archive-date=14 October 2008|url-status = live}}</ref> At the 1951 congress of the party, 'People's Democracy' was substituted by 'National Democracy' as the main slogan of the party.<ref>[[E.M.S. Namboodiripad]]. ''The Communist Party in Kerala – Six Decades of Struggle and Advance''. New Delhi: National Book Centre, 1994. p. 273</ref>

 

 

In 1952, CPI became the first leading opposition party in the Lok Sabha, while the Indian National Congress was in power.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

Communist movement or CPI in particular emerged as a front runner after [[Guru Radha Kishan]] undertook a fast unto death for 24 days to promote the cause of textile workers in Delhi. Till than it was a public misconception that communists are revolutionaries with arms in their hands and workers and their families were afraid to get associated with the communists but this act mobilised general public in the favour of communist movement as a whole. During this period people with their families used to visit 'dharna sthal' to encourage CPI cadre.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

This model of selflessness for the society worked for the CPI far more than what was expected. This trend was followed by almost all other state units of the party in the Hindi heartland. Communist Party related trade union [[AITUC]] became a prominent force to unite the workers in textile, municipal and unorganised sectors, the first labour union in unorganised sector was also emerged in the leadership of Comrade Guru Radha Kishan during this period in Delhi's Sadar Bazaar area.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} This movement of mass polarisation of workers in the favour of CPI worked effectively in Delhi and paved the way for great success of CPI in the elections in working class dominated areas in Delhi. Comrade [[Gangadhar Adhikari]] and E.M.S. Namboodiripad applauded this brigade of dynamic comrades for their selfless approach and organisational capabilities. This brigade of firebrand communists gained more prominence when Telangana hero [[Chandra Rajeswara Rao]] to be General Secretary of the Communist Party of India.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

The Communist Party of India, along with its units in Bombay, Maharashtra and Gujarat, decided to start armed operations in the area in the July 1954. Both the areas were liberated by the beginning of August. Communist leaders like Narayan Palekar, Parulekar, Vaz, Rodriguez, Cunha and others emerged as the famous Communist leaders of this movement. Thereafter, the struggle to liberate [[Daman and Diu]] was begun by the Communist Party in Gujarat and other forces.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsclick.in/Revisiting-Goa-Liberation-Story-59th-Independence-Day|title=Revisiting Goa's Liberation Story on its 59th Independence Day|date=18 December 2020}}</ref>

The countrywide Goa satyagraha of 1955-56 is among the unforgettable pages in the history of freedom struggle, in which the Communists played a major and memorable role. The CPI decided to send batches of satyahrahis since the middle of 1955 to the borders of Goa and even inside. Many were killed, many more others arrested and sent to jails inside Goa and inhumanly treated. Many others were even sent to jails in Portugal and were brutally tortured.

The satyagraha was led and conducted by a joint committee known as Goa Vimochan Sahayak Samiti. S.A. Dange, Senapati Bapat, S.G. Sardesai, Nana Patil and several others were among the prominent leaders of the Samiti. Satyagraha began on 10 May 1955, and soon became a countrywide movement.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mainstreamweekly.net/article3273.html|title = Goa — the Liberators and the Lesson - Mainstream}}</ref>

During the period 1970–77, CPI was allied with the Congress party. In Kerala, they formed a government together with Congress as part of a coalition known as the [[United Front (1970–1979, Kerala)|United Front]], with the CPI-leader [[C. Achutha Menon]] as Chief Minister. This government continued governing throughout the emergency period and was responsible for the many acts of repression throughout the period carried out against political opponents in the guise of fighting naxals, manifesting most infamously in the [[Rajan case|Rajan Case]]. The United Front government also used this opportunity to pursue class struggle by punishing those from the managerial classes, money lenders, bosses with anti-labour stances, ration shopkeepers and truckers engaged in black marketing, under stringent provisions of [[Maintenance of Internal Security Act|MISA]] and [[Defence of India act and Defence of India rules, 1962|DIR]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jaffrelot |first=Christophe |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1242023968 |title=India's first dictatorship : the emergency, 1975 -1977 |date=2021 |others=Pratinav Anil |isbn=978-93-90351-60-2 |location=Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India |oclc=1242023968}}</ref>  

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Communist Party of India (CPI) and CPI-M regional control. 

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[[File:Cpipkvtvnd (87).JPG|thumb|Mural in [[Thiruvananthapuram]]]]CPI was recognised by the [[Election Commission of India]] as a 'National Party'. To date, CPI happens to be the only national political party from India to have contested all the general elections using the same [[electoral symbol]]. Owing to a massive defeat in [[2019 Indian general election]] where the party saw its tally reduce to 2 MP, the Election Commission of India has sent a letter to CPI asking for reasons why its national party status should not be revoked.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/BSP-CPI-NCP-get-to-retain-national-status-for-now/articleshow/53819419.cms|title=BSP, CPI, NCP get to retain national status, for now - Times of India|work=The Times of India|access-date=25 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170412014828/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/BSP-CPI-NCP-get-to-retain-national-status-for-now/articleshow/53819419.cms#|archive-date=12 April 2017|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/CPM-may-lose-national-party-status/articleshow/52370325.cms|title=CPM may lose national party status - Times of India|work=The Times of India|access-date=25 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117143649/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/CPM-may-lose-national-party-status/articleshow/52370325.cms#|archive-date=17 January 2018|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/bsp-ncp-and-cpi-may-lose-national-party-status/story-QTvg2iWonkSWbtxN57xd5I.html|title=BSP, NCP and CPI may lose national party status|date=11 August 2014|work=hindustantimes.com/|access-date=25 November 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116133233/http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/bsp-ncp-and-cpi-may-lose-national-party-status/story-QTvg2iWonkSWbtxN57xd5I.html#|archive-date=16 November 2017|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Reprieve-for-BSP-CPI-as-EC-amends-rules/article14583806.ece|title=Reprieve for BSP, CPI as EC amends rules|date=23 August 2016|work=The Hindu|access-date=25 November 2017|others=Special Correspondent|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.oneindia.com/feature/ec-might-strip-national-party-status-from-bsp-ncp-cpi-1475727.html|title=EC might strip national party status from BSP, NCP, CPI|work=oneindia.com|access-date=25 November 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116132759/https://www.oneindia.com/feature/ec-might-strip-national-party-status-from-bsp-ncp-cpi-1475727.html#|archive-date=16 November 2017|url-status = live}}</ref> If similar performance is repeated in the next election, the CPI will no longer be a [[List of political parties in India#National|national party]].

On 8 July 2008, the General Secretary of CPI(M), [[Prakash Karat]], announced that the Left was withdrawing its support over the decision by the government to go ahead with the [[United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act]]. The Left parties combination had been a staunch advocate of not proceeding with this deal citing national interests.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200807081550.htm|title=The Hindu News Update Service|date=1 August 2008|access-date=21 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801185533/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200807081550.htm|archive-date=1 August 2008}}</ref>

In [[West Bengal]] it participates in the [[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]]. It also participated in the state government in Manipur. In Kerala the party is part of [[Left Democratic Front (Kerala)|Left Democratic Front]]. In [[Tripura]] the party is a partner of the [[Left Front (Tripura)|Left Front]], which governed the state till 2018. In [[Tamil Nadu]] it is part of the [[Secular Progressive Alliance]] and in Bihar it is the part of [[Mahagathbandhan (Bihar)|Mahagathbandhan]]. It is involved in the [[Left Democratic Front in Maharashtra]]. In 2022 February CPI and Congress formed an alliance in Manipur named [[Manipur Progressive Secular Alliance]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=28 January 2022|title=Manipur: Congress forms pre-poll alliance with Left-wing political parties|url=https://indianexpress.com/elections/manipur-congress-forms-pre-poll-alliance-with-left-wing-political-parties-7744817/|access-date=4 February 2022|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=27 January 2022|title=In run-up to Manipur polls, Congress announces pre-poll alliance with 5 parties|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/in-run-up-to-manipur-polls-congress-announces-pre-poll-alliance-with-5-parties-101643300217727.html|access-date=4 February 2022|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}</ref> The current general secretary of CPI is [[D. Raja]].

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== List of Members of Parliament ==

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The following are the members of the Central Control Commission, National Council and Candidate Members to National Council, National Executive, National Secretariat and Party Programme Commission were elected at the 23rd Party Congress of Communist Party of India held from 25 to 29 April 2018 in Kollam, Kerala.<ref name="Leadership">{{Cite web|url=https://www.communistparty.in/blank-1|title=Leadership|website=CPI Official Copy}}</ref>

 

 

 

#[[Amarjeet Kaur (Politician)|Amarjeet Kaur]]

#[[Ramendra Kumar (politician)|Ramendra Kumar]]  

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|+ General secretaries and Chairmen<ref>{{cite news |title=20th Party Congress, Hyderabad |url=http://www.newageweekly.in/2012/03/20th-party-congress-hyderabad.html|access-date=7 September 2020|website=newageweekly.in |language=en}}</ref>

<ref>{{cite news |title= Sudhakar Reddy steps into Bardhan's shoes as CPI general secretary|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sudhakar-reddy-steps-into-bardhans-shoes-as-cpi-general-secretary/article3266136.ece|website=thehindu.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Sudhakar Reddy is CPI general secretary again|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sudhakar-reddy-is-cpi-general-secretary-again/article7046445.ece|website= thehindu.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Sudhakar Reddy unanimously re-elected CPI general secretary|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/sudhakar-reddy-unanimously-re-elected-cpi-general-secretary-118042900492_1.html |website= business-standard.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=D. Raja takes over as CPI general secretary |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/d-raja-takes-over-as-cpi-general-secretary/article28626860.ece |work=The Hindu |date=21 July 2019 |language=en-IN}}</ref>

| '''1st'''|| ||[[Sachchidanand Vishnu Ghate]] || 1925-1933

| '''2nd'''||[[File:Gangadhar Adhikary.jpg|75px]]||[[Gangadhar Adhikari]] || 1933-1935

| '''3rd'''||[[File:PC Joshi 1937.jpg|75px]]||[[Puran Chand Joshi]] || 1935-1948

| '''4th'''||[[ File:B.T.Ranadive.jpg |75px]]||[[B. T. Ranadive]] || 1948-1950

| '''5th'''||  ||[[Chandra Rajeswara Rao]] || 1950-1951, 1964-1990

| '''6th'''||||[[Ajoy Ghosh]] || 1951-1962

|'''Chairman'''|| [[File:S.A. Dange.jpg|75px]] ||[[Shripad Amrit Dange]] || 1962-1981

| '''7th'''|| [[File:E. M. S. Namboodiripad.jpg|75px]] ||[[E. M. S. Namboodiripad]] || 1962-1964

| '''8th'''|| ||[[Indrajit Gupta]] || 1990-1996

| '''9th'''|| [[File:Bardan.JPG|75px]] ||[[Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan]] || 1996-2012

| '''10th'''|| [[File:SUDAKAR REDDY DSC 0686.JPG|75px]] ||[[Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy]] || 2012-2019

|+ Party Congress <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.genieforcity.com/kanpur/history-kanpur.html|title=Kanpur in History &#124; Genie For Kanpur|website=Genie for City|access-date=21 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://peoplesdemocracy.in/2020/0315_pd/first-party-congress-%E2%80%93-1943|title=The First Party Congress – 1943 &#124; Peoples Democracy|website=peoplesdemocracy.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/the-calcutta-line-of-the-communist-party-of-india-and-the-train-of-its-continuing-treachery|title=The Calcutta Line of the Communist Party of India and the Train of its Continuing Treachery|first=Sandeep|last=Balakrishna|website=The Dharma Dispatch}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.peoplesdemocracy.in/2020/0712_pd/third-party-congress-%E2%80%93-attempt-towards-course-correction|title=Third Party Congress – An Attempt towards Course Correction &#124; Peoples Democracy|website=peoplesdemocracy.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://peoplesdemocracy.in/2020/0719_pd/fourth-congress-inner-party-struggle-begins|title=The Fourth Congress: Inner-party Struggle Begins &#124; Peoples Democracy|website=peoplesdemocracy.in}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cpimkerala.org/eng/conferences-6.php?n=1|title=Party Congress|website=cpimkerala.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newageweekly.in/2012/02/seventh-congress-of-cpi.html|title=Seventh Congress of the CPI|website=newageweekly.in}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=20th Party Congress, Hyderabad |url=http://www.newageweekly.in/2012/03/20th-party-congress-hyderabad.html|access-date=7 September 2020|website=newageweekly.in|language=en}}</ref>

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| [[2nd Congress of the Communist Party of India|2nd]] || 1948 February 28–27 March || Calcutta

*[[All India Kisan Sabha]] - AIKS (peasants organisation)

*[[Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union]] - BKMU (agricultural workers)

*[[Indian People's Theatre Association]] - IPTA (cultural wing)

*[[All India State Government Employees Federation]] (State government employees)

<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stateofkerala.in/niyamasabha/e_m_s_namboodiripad.php |title=Kerala Niyamasabha EMS Namboodiripad |website=stateofkerala.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other-news/111116/60-years-of-kerala-model-boon-and-bane-of-remittances.html|title=60 years of Kerala model: Boon and bane of remittances|date=11 November 2016|website=Deccan Chronicle}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/veteran-cpi-leader-pkv-passes-on/310067|title=Veteran CPI leader 'PKV' passes on|website=outlookindia.com}}</ref>

*[[Amarjeet Kaur]] - General Secretary of AITUC and National Secretary of CPI

*[[Annabhau Sathe]] - [[Samyukta Maharashtra movement]] leader

*[[Annie Raja]] - General Secretary of NFIW and National Executive Member of CPI

*[[Bhargavi Thankappan]] - Parliamentarian

*[[C. Divakaran]] - Senior leader, former minister and National Council Member from Kerala

*[[Chittayam Gopakumar]] - Deputy Speaker of [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]] and State council member

*[[C. N. Jayadevan]] - Senior leader, parliamentarian

*[[Dhanwantri]] - one of the founder of communist party in Jammu & Kashmir

*[[Darshan Singh Canadian]] - Trade Unionist, fight against Khalistan movement  

*[[D. Pandian]] - Parliamentarian & former Tamil Nadu state secretary  

*[[Geeta Mukherjee]] - Parliamentarian & Former Vice President of National Federation of Indian Women  

*[[Gurudas Dasgupta]] - Parliamentarian & Former General Secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union

*[[Hajrah Begum]] - former general secretary of NFIW

*[[Mohit Banerji]] - Prominent Leader

*[[N.E. Balaram]] - Founding leader of the [[Socialism in India|communist movement]] in Kerala, India

*[[Parvathi Krishnan]] - Parliamentarian

*[[P. Krishna Pillai]] - Founder and First secretary of CPI in Kerala

*[[Rajaji Mathew Thomas]] - Journalist, former MLA and CPI National council Member, from Kerala

*[[Rosamma Punnoose]] - Freedom Fighter

*[[R.Sugathan]] - Prominent trade unionist, mass leader and member of Kerala Legislative assembly

*[[Sachchidanand Vishnu Ghate]] - First general secretary of CPI, freedom fighter

*[[Suhasini Chattopadhyay]] - founding member of CPI

*[[Vidya Munshi]] - Journalist

*[[Vimla Dang]] - leader of CPI  

*[[V. S. Sunil Kumar]] - Former Agriculture Minister in Kerala

*[[V. V. Raghavan|V.V. Raghavan]] -CPI Central Secretariat Member,Two time Loksabha Member from [[Thrissur]] Kerala, [[Rajya sabha]] Member, Former [[Agriculture minister|Agriculture Minister]] of Kerala

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! style="width:25%;"Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white" | Year

! style="width:15%;"Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white" | Total Lok Sabha constituencies

! style="width:15%;"Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white" | Seats won / contested

! style="width:15%;"Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white" | Change in seats

! style="width:15%;"Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white" | Total votes

! style="width:15%;"Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white" | Percentage of votes

! style="width:15%;"Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white" | Change in vote %

! style="width:15%;"Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white" class="unsortable" | {{ref.}}

| 1952|| 489 || {{Composition bar|16|49|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}}} || - || 3,487,401 || 3.29% || -

| <ref name="ECI1951">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1951/VOL_1_51_LS.PDF |title=LS Statistical Report : 1951 Vol. 1 |work=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=18 October 2014 |page=70 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008191615/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1951/VOL_1_51_LS.PDF |archive-date=8 October 2014 }}</ref>

| <ref name="ECI1957">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1957/Vol_I_57_LS.pdf | title=LS Statistical Report : 1957 Vol. 1 | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | page=49 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404200011/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1957/Vol_I_57_LS.pdf# | archive-date=4 April 2014 |url-status = live| df=dmy-all }}</ref>

| 1962|| 494 ||  {{Composition bar|29|137|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}}} || {{increase}} 02 || 11,450,037 || 9.94% || {{increase}} 1.02%

| <ref name="ECI1962">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1962/Vol_I_LS_62.pdf | title=LS Statistical Report : 1962 Vol. 1 | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | page=75 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404203719/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1962/Vol_I_LS_62.pdf# | archive-date=4 April 2014 |url-status = live| df=dmy-all }}</ref>

| 1967|| 520 || {{Composition bar|23|109|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}}} || {{decrease}} 06 || 7,458,396 || 5.11% || {{decrease}} 4.83%

| <ref name="ECI1967">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf | title=LS Statistical Report : 1967 Vol. 1 | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | page=78 |url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718185108/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf | archive-date=18 July 2014 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

| 1971|| 518 || {{Composition bar|23|87|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}}} || {{steady}} 00 || 6,933,627 || 4.73% || {{decrease}} 0.38%

| <ref name="ECI1971">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1971/Vol_I_LS71.pdf | title=LS Statistical Report : 1971 Vol. 1 | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | page=79 |url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718175452/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1971/Vol_I_LS71.pdf | archive-date=18 July 2014 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

| <ref name="ECI1977">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1977/Vol_I_LS_77.pdf | title=LS Statistical Report : 1977 Vol. 1 | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | page=89 |url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718185438/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1977/Vol_I_LS_77.pdf | archive-date=18 July 2014 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

| 1980|| 529 ( 542^* ) ||  {{Composition bar|10|47|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}}} || {{increase}} 03 || 4,927,342 || 2.49% || {{decrease}} 0.33%

| <ref name="ECI1980">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf | title=LS Statistical Report : 1980 Vol. 1 | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | page=86 |url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718175926/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf | archive-date=18 July 2014 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

| 1984|| 541 || {{Composition bar|6|66|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}}}|| {{decrease}} 04 || 6,733,117 || 2.70% || {{increase}} 0.21%

| <ref name="ECI1984">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1984/Vol_I_LS_84.pdf | title=LS Statistical Report : 1984 Vol. 1 | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | page=81 |url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718184911/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1984/Vol_I_LS_84.pdf | archive-date=18 July 2014 | df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="ECI1985">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1985/Vol_I_LS_85.pdf | title=LS Statistical Report : 1985 Vol. 1 | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | page=15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015622/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1985/Vol_I_LS_85.pdf# | archive-date=5 March 2016 |url-status = live| df=dmy-all }}</ref>

| 1989|| 529 || {{Composition bar|12|50|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}}}|| {{increase}} 06 || 7,734,697 || 2.57% || {{decrease}} 0.13%

| <ref name="ECI1989">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1989/Vol_I_LS_89.pdf | title=LS Statistical Report : 1989 Vol. 1 | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | page=88 |url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718183934/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1989/Vol_I_LS_89.pdf | archive-date=18 July 2014 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

| 1991|| 534 ||  {{Composition bar|14|43|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}}} || {{increase}} 02 || 6,898,340 || 2.48% || {{decrease}} 0.09%

| <ref name="ECI1991">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1991/VOL_I_91.pdf | title=LS Statistical Report : 1991 Vol. 1 | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | page=58 |url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718183558/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1991/VOL_I_91.pdf | archive-date=18 July 2014 | df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="ECI1992">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1992/GE_VOL_I_92.pdf | title=LS Statistical Report : 1992 Vol. 1 | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | page=13 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160606161046/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1992/GE_VOL_I_92.pdf# | archive-date=6 June 2016 |url-status = live| df=dmy-all }}</ref>

| 1996|| 543 ||  {{Composition bar|12|43|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}}} || {{decrease}} 02 || 6,582,263 || 1.97% || {{decrease}} 0.51%

| <ref name="ECI1996">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1996/Vol_I_LS_96.pdf | title=LS Statistical Report : 1996 Vol. 1 | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | page=93 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718183504/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1996/Vol_I_LS_96.pdf# | archive-date=18 July 2014 |url-status = live| df=dmy-all }}</ref>

| 1998|| 543 || {{Composition bar|09|58|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}}} || {{decrease}} 03 || 6,429,569 || 1.75% || {{decrease}} 0.22%

| <ref name="ECI1998">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1998/Vol_I_LS_98.pdf |title=LS Statistical Report : 1998 Vol. 1 |work=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=18 October 2014 |page=93 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718181833/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1998/Vol_I_LS_98.pdf |archive-date=18 July 2014 }}</ref>

| 1999|| 543 || {{Composition bar|04|54|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}}}|| {{decrease}} 05 || 5,395,119 || 1.48% || {{decrease}} 0.27%

| <ref name="ECI1999">{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1999/Vol_I_LS_99.pdf |title=LS Statistical Report : 1999 Vol. 1 |work=[[Election Commission of India]] |access-date=18 October 2014 |page=92 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718183222/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1999/Vol_I_LS_99.pdf |archive-date=18 July 2014 }}</ref>

| 2004|| 543 || {{Composition bar|10|34|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}}}|| {{increase}} 06 || 5,484,111 || 1.41% || {{decrease}} 0.07%

| <ref name="ECI2004">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_2004/Vol_I_LS_2004.pdf | title=LS Statistical Report : 2004 Vol. 1 | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | page=101 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718190634/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_2004/Vol_I_LS_2004.pdf# | archive-date=18 July 2014 |url-status = live| df=dmy-all }}</ref>

| 2009|| 543 || {{Composition bar|04|56|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}}}|| {{decrease}} 06 || 5,951,888 || 1.43% || {{increase}} 0.02%

| <ref name="ECI2009">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2009/Stats/VOLI/12_PerformanceOfNationalParties.pdf | title=LS 2009 : Performance of National Parties | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020223419/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2009/Stats/VOLI/12_PerformanceOfNationalParties.pdf# | archive-date=20 October 2014 |url-status = live| df=dmy-all }}</ref>

| 2014|| 543 || {{Composition bar|1|67|{{party color|Communist Party of India}}}}|| {{decrease}} 03 || 4,327,298 || 0.78% || {{decrease}}  0.65%

| <ref name="ECI2014">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2014/4%20-%20List%20of%20Successful%20Candidates.pdf | title=LS 2014 : List of successful candidates | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | page=93 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024141309/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2014/4%20-%20List%20of%20Successful%20Candidates.pdf# | archive-date=24 October 2014 |url-status = live| df=dmy-all }}</ref>

|{{increase}} 01

| <ref name="auto3">{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2009/Stats/VOLI/25_ConstituencyWiseDetailedResult.pdf|title=Lok Sabha Elections 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130802000135/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2009/Stats/VOLI/25_ConstituencyWiseDetailedResult.pdf#|archive-date=2 August 2013|url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2014/33%20-%20Constituency%20wise%20detailed%20result.pdf|title=Lok Sabha Elections 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123041546/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2014/33%20-%20Constituency%20wise%20detailed%20result.pdf#|archive-date=23 November 2016|url-status = live}}</ref>  

|[[Delhi]] ||0||0 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 7

|[[Lakshadweep]] ||1<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ali-akbar-k/candidates/candidateid-7959.cms|title=Ali Akbar K.: Ali Akbar K. CPI from LAKSHADWEEP in Lok Sabha Elections &#124; Ali Akbar K. News, images and videos|website=The Economic Times}}</ref>||0 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1

<ref>{{cite web|url= https://eci.gov.in/files/file/10983-6-state-wise-candidate-data-summary/ |title=6. State Wise Candidate data Summary |access-date=7 October 2020}}</ref>

<ref>{{cite news | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/once-upon-a-poll-seventh-lok-sabha-elections-1980/ | title=Seventh Lok Sabha elections (1980) | work=Indian Express | date=14 March 2014 | agency=Indian Express | access-date=18 October 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026125112/http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/once-upon-a-poll-seventh-lok-sabha-elections-1980/# | archive-date=26 October 2014 |url-status = live| df=dmy-all }}</ref>

! Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|Year

! Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|State

! Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|Total<br/>assembly seats

! Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|Seats won /<br/>Seats contested

! Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|Change<br/>in seats

! Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|Votes

! Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|Vote %

! Style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|Change in<br/>vote %

|- style="background-color:#FFE6E6";

|- style="background-color:#FFE6E6";

! State || No. of candidates || No. elected || Total no. of seats in Assembly || Year of Election

|[[Delhi]] || 3 || 0 || 70 || 2020

|[[Himachal Pradesh]] || 3 || 0 || 68 || 2017<ref>{{cite news |title=Assembly Election Results 2017: A Journey Through The Campaigning In Gujarat And Himachal Pradesh |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/assembly-election-results-2017-a-journey-through-the-campaigning-in-gujarat-and-himachal-pradesh-1788913 |access-date=7 October 2020 |work=NDTV.com |date=18 December 2017}}</ref>

|[[Manipur]] || 6 || 0 || 60 || 2017

|[[Punjab, India|Punjab]] || 23 || 0 || 117 || 2017

|[[Uttar Pradesh]] || 68 || 0 || 403 || 2017

|[[Uttarakhand]] || 4 || 0 || 70 || 2017

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